Push-Pull until something more interesting comes along.... 18/11 to 20/11 then 25/11 to 28/11 1988
The Portsmouth to Cardiff services had finished in May of 1988, I and many of the Crompton roadshow couldn't face the prospect of just shuttling up & down on the Waterloo - Salisbury push-pull trains formed of class 33/1 "Bagpipes" & TC stock just yet. I for one started a summer of leaping to Brum on Friday evenings, via any Electric loco scratches that were available, for a few beers then try get my head down in one of Birmingham New Street's waiting rooms - the waiting room at the South end of platform One soon became known as "Poodle's Kennel"! Then at about 0330 upstairs for "The Gen" which would normally appear in the form of a raft of Tops printouts normally in the safe hands of Mr Bernie McDonaugh! I would return to Euston last thing Saturday night, for a stroll over to Waterloo for the 0130 Sunday Bagpipe to Yeovil Jn, normally on my tod unless the train was diverted via anywhere interesting, in which case a few "faces...