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04/07/2017 90036 plus DVT 82210 on 1D05 running late after Stevenage and not regaining time at any point through to Leeds.

28th May 2017
800010 12:53 5X80 Doncaster Carr IEP depot to Southall via East Coast Mainline, passed Ranskill 10 late at 13:22

My thanks to those responsible for making the Indices available for 2015 and 2016, which I collected from the AGM. Long may they continue as they form a good finale and reference for each year as they have always done.

The tour ran well with only a few minor problems, A broken rail outside Derby cased some confusion the books platform was occupierd by Vouager, and when asked which platform the excursion would use,asked her superior, got the answer we don't know!! The announcer gave the information as the train ar...

Pathfinder and the Deltic PS in conjunction with DRS, ran a tour today from Willington, Derbys via Burton on Trent, Derby, Leeds, Hull, Doncaster, Gainsborough Lea Road, Sleaford, and Peterborough to London Kings Cross, followed by a return along the ECML to Leeds behind Deltic D9009. Deltic turned ...

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I recall that the new numbers were often marked on the shopping lists/overhaul level detail, on boards adjacent to the locos, which I noted at both Doncaster and Derby Works (other works may have done the same). As such the official date of renumbering may have been a paper exercise before the paint...

The Society should set up an authorised set of members to scan and submit pdfs for archive purposes, which would allow a common standard to be adopted and the Society to benefit from members input without it being too onerous upon any individual.

A positive way forward?

Don't agree at all.

It is a 'forum'. That is discussion in both directions.

Hiding behind locked topics is not the direction to take.

Sad.