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Lady G suggests it could be somewhere near Consett County Durham? Plenty of 9Fs in 1960s and sentinel locos in 1930s!.
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Apologies Your Ladyship - but it's South of County Durham.
The train's journey from start to finish generally took less than 20 minutes.
The train's journey from start to finish generally took less than 20 minutes.
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Pollitt E2 class was among the first locos to be allocated to this train.
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I think we could be on the old GCR? The 9F being the GCR classification. The LNER classification N5. If I am correct? some more investigation is required
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Could it be "The Bollington Bug" running from Macclesfield to Bollington.
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Could it be "The Bollington Bug" running from Macclesfield to Bollington.
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Yes - the train ran on the GCR (if I gave you the actual first class of loco to haul it then a Google search would give away the train itself). The 9F reference however was the "modern" BR classification i.e. "Evening Star" type - quite some once-off power for 2 coaches!
Carry on investigating!
Carry on investigating!
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Ex-Pat wrote:Yes - the train ran on the GCR (if I gave you the actual first class of loco to haul it then a Google search would give away the train itself). The 9F reference however was the "modern" BR classification i.e. "Evening Star" type - quite some once-off power for 2 coaches!
Carry on investigating!
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The final 3 locos to be allocated to the duties were 84004, 84006 & 84007.
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Ex-Pat wrote:The final 3 locos to be allocated to the duties were 84004, 84006 & 84007.
According to my little purple book. In the early 60s 84004, was allocated to 1E Bletchley, 84006 & 84007 were allocated to 16D Nottingham.
So something that ran somewhere around those sheds?
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Re: Railway Quiz
Bushey Troughs wrote:Ex-Pat wrote:The final 3 locos to be allocated to the duties were 84004, 84006 & 84007.
According to my little purple book. In the early 60s 84004, was allocated to 1E Bletchley, 84006 & 84006 were allocated to 16D Nottingham.
So something that ran somewhere around those sheds?
Forget Bletchley and concentrate on Nottingham area.
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Looks like I need to give you route 1 info - the first loco to do this duty was a Sacre.
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I'm thinking Rushden & Higham Ferrers, from Wellingboro', but I'm a little dubious about 84004 !?!? Oh, and one time loco used on the passenger train was a O1 2-8-0.
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Sorry bike2steam - it's definitely in the Nottingham area.
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Ah, then it leaves just one possibility, the Annesley 'Dido' ?? I should read the posts, you said GCR.
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Yes - that's the train - the question was also "What is believed to be the reason for its name?"
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Ex-Pat wrote:Yes - that's the train - the question was also "What is believed to be the reason for its name?"
Oh yeah - forgot - old age - 'cause the train ran 'Day In, Day Out'

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