All Line Rover 22/07/1988 to 31/07/1988 "Why can't we get the Electronic Token?"
The Pompey's had finished in May of this year, since then my weekends had been spent leaping around the country scratching locos. I couldn't yet face spending my days between Waterloo & Salisbury on a succession of class 33/1 "Bagpipes", the only booked Crompton diagrams left.
I would return South every Saturday night, however, to cover the 0330 class 33/1 overnight out of Waterloo to Portsmouth which was then booked back up to Waterloo then out to Salisbury. This kept my Crompton mileage ticking over. It was now time for some Annual Leave & an All Line Rover.
# = Required Loco or Unit for haulage.
Friday 22/07/88
1535# / 1536# / 1590 Sittingbourne - London Victoria 44m 59ch
HST St.Pancras - Leicester 99m
47373 Leicester - Nuneaton 1M22 1840 Skegness - Nuneaton 19m 12ch
156 417# Nuneaton - Birmingham New Street 21m 08ch
A poor start, the Skeg - Nuneaton was booked a pair of class 20's NOT a dud slow speed fitted Knottingley class 47!
Saturday 23/07/88
47552# Birmingham New Street - Bristol TM 89m 74ch
HST Bristol TM - Birmingham New Street 89m 74ch
The "Gen" on the days runners & riders was normally available about 0400 on a Saturday at New Street, you'd all meet upstairs before 1E26 the 0434 to Leeds then someone read out the loco numbers off sheets of Tops printouts. Thankyou very much to the gentlemen concerned & the time they spent getting the info together!
The 0620 New Street to Aberystwyth was this summer booked a pair of Buxton 37/6's.
37683#) Birmingham New Street - Telford 1J18 0620 Birm New St - Aberystwyth 28m 38ch
37685#)
47327# Telford - Wolverhampton 1A66 0707 Shrewsbury - Euston 15m 54ch
87024 Wolverhampton - Birmingham New St 1A66 0707 Shrewsbury - Euston 12m 64ch
85004# Birmingham New St - Sandwell 1D33 0755 Coventry - Holyhead 5m 28ch
HST Sandwell - Birmingham New St 5m 28ch
85005# Birmingham New St - Sandwell 1S49 0913 Birmingham New St - Glasgow Central 5m 28ch
85028# Sandwell - Birmingham New St 1A22 0924 Wolverhampton - Euston 5m 28ch
Now time for a little DMU action:
53093# / 59724# / 53818# Birmingham New St - Duddeston 1m 41ch
51398# / 59478# / 51390# Duddeston - Birmingham New St 1m 41ch
I did say a little!
47664# Birmingham New St - Wolverhampton 1S43 0830 Bristol TM - Glasgow Central 12m 64ch
85038# Wolverhampton - Preston 1S43 0830 Bristol TM - Glasgow Central 90m 70ch
47356# Preston - Manchester Victoria 2J58 1232 Blackpool North - Man Vic 30m 66ch
86232 Manchester Piccadilly - Stafford 1418 Man Picc - Birm New St 53m 77ch
85004 Stafford - Liverpool Lime Street 1M14 1000 Weymouth L.Lime St 60m 09ch
37430 Liverpool Lime Street - Shrewsbury 1714 L.Lime St - Cardiff 68m 29ch
37251#) Shrewsbury - Wolverhampton 1A34 1505 Pwllheli - Euston 29m 60ch
37215#)
304 035# Wolverhampton - Birmingham New St 2030 Wolverhampton - Birm New St 12m 64ch
The last train to Paddington was in, I found a required NB Duff on the front - that will end the day nicely.
47188# Birmingham New St - Paddington 1V99 2058 Birm New St - Paddington 134m 47ch
13 winner locos plus 1 unit & 6 DMU coaches, not a bad result.
Sunday 24/07/88
I probably walked from Paddington to Waterloo, a bit of a chore after a long night & day. Add to that the 0330 33/1 overnight wasn't running due to Engineering works so a 2nd night with little sleep.
1243# Waterloo - Clapham Jn 0330 Waterloo - Portsmouth 3m 74ch
3083# / 1275# Clapham Jn - Brighton 48m 04ch
1275 Brighton - Clapham Jn 0520 Brighton - Clapham Jn 48m 04ch
5743# Clapham Jn - Waterloo 3m 74ch
A major surprise awaited here - A Steamex was running from Waterloo to Yeovil Jn today & the power as far as Salisbury turned out to be 33008 & 33050 in Multi. Normal tickets were valid, you only needed a special ticket for the Steam section. Result!
33008) Waterloo - Salisbury 1Z20 0802 Waterloo - Yeovil Jn "The Blackmore Vale Express" 83m 43ch
33050)
33118 Salisbury - Basingstoke 2L18 1000 Salisbury - Basingstoke 35m 62ch
33108 Basingstoke - Salisbury 1L05 0940 Waterloo - Salisbury 35m 62ch
33108 Salisbury - Basingstoke 2L40 1220 Salisbury - Basingstoke 35m 62ch
An already great day for 33 haulage got even better - news was a Crompton on the 1410 Waterloo - Exeter (vice class 50)
1224 Basingstoke - Woking 1333 Basingstoke - Waterloo 23m 34ch
33065 Woking - Yeovil Jn 1V14 1410 Waterloo - Exeter St.Davids 98m 21ch
50027 Yeovil Jn - Salisbury 1O55 1617 Exeter St.Davids - Waterloo 39m 01ch
Decision time here, the pair of 33's from this morning were going light to Romsey to re-engine the Steam charter there. So I got on the Charter from Salisbury - I think I was charged £5 for the winning "Taw Valley" to Romsey.
34092# Salisbury - Romsey 1Z22 1742 Yeovil Jn - Waterloo "The Blackmore Vale Express" 16m 41ch 
33008 & 33050 back onto 1Z22 1742 Yeovil to Waterloo at Romsey. (Flickr photo used with courtesy of Steve Thomas (Neath)
33050) Romsey - Waterloo (Via Southampton)
33008) 1Z22 1742 Yeovil Jn - Waterloo "The Blackmore Vale Express" 86m 43ch
I had been travelling with Steve Thomas (Neath) on the Charter, the two of us were being joined by my brother (Puppy) for an overnight to Scotland. We were looking to travel on a Motorail service out of Euston, you couldn't reserve it but if you had an All Line Rover you could ask the Guard if there was space on the service. We were in luck - the train consisted of all 1st class compartments, me & Neath slept laid on the seats & Puppy slept on the thickly carpeted floor - A Hellfire move!
85013 London Euston - Mossend Yard 2205 Euston - Stirling Motorail 391m 03ch
Monday 25/07/88
37406 Mossend Yard - Stirling 2205 Euston - Stirling Motorail 26m 29ch
47460 Stirling - Edinburgh 2330 Inverness - Edinburgh 36m 39ch
47470 Edinburgh - Inverness 1H05 0710 Edinburgh - Inverness 187m 54ch
We rolled past the TMD into Inverness fully expecting the booked class 37/4 to be waiting to work our Wick service - however just 37114 was on the shed. Surely not?
37114 Inverness - Wick 2H63 1135 Inverness - Wick 161m 36ch
The return journey on the 1812 Wick to Inverness turned into a bit of a farce! The journey started out normally enough but while on route the Driver seemed unable to get the Electronic Token off the RETB signalling system. We would arrive at a station, stop, then shunt back / pull forward - then eventually go forward towards Inverness. This happened at several stations. It came as no surprise that when we rolled into Inverness there was a reception party of besuited BR officials waiting to interrogate the Driver!
37114 Wick - Inverness 2H64 1812 Wick - Inverness 161m 36ch
47636 Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street 1T04 2340 Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street 180m 61ch
Tuesday 26/07/88
37424 Glasgow Queen Street - Tyndrum Upper 1Y01 0550 Glasgow Queen St - Fort William 64m 07ch
Then the Iconic (& steeply downhill) walk to Tyndrum Lower.
37404 Tyndrum Lower - Arrochar & Tarbet 1T12 0810 Oban - Glasgow Queen Street 21m 71ch
37408# Arrochar & Tarbet - Oban 1Y11 0834 Glasgow Queen Street - Oban 58m 45ch
37408 Oban - Glasgow Queen Street 1T28 1250 Oban - Glasgow Queen Street 100m 76ch
47524# Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh 2O72 1714 Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh 47m 21ch
47708# Edinburgh - Glasgow Queen Street 1O49 1830 Edinburgh - Glasgow Queen Street 47m 21ch
47708 Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh 1O54 1930 Glasgow Queen Street - Edinburgh 47m 21ch
47708 Edinburgh - Glasgow Queen Street 1O57 2030 Edinburgh - Glasgow Queen Street 47m 21ch
I've gone dizzy just typing up all those Glasgow - Edinburgh - Glasgow moves!
47635# Glasgow Central - Paisley Gilmour St 1A05 2153 Glasgow Central - Stranraer 7m 18ch
318 267# Paisley Gilmour St - Glasgow Central 7m 18ch
87026 Glasgow Central - Carlisle 1M10 2330 Glasgow Central - Euston 102m 27ch
Wednesday 27/07/88
We couldn't just sleep down to London - no there was a Shunter to cane in on the way!
08768# Bay Platform to Mainline Platform / 1M11 Carlisle Sleeper Shunt.
Although this did land us on a 86 "Can" thru to Euston.
86214 Carlisle - Euston 1M11 2350 Glasgow Central - Euston 299m 01ch
A day on the 33/1 Bagpipes, a good day at that.
1214# / 3042# Waterloo - Clapham Jn 0720 Waterloo - Portsmouth Hbr 3m 74ch
33118 Clapham Jn - Waterloo 1L02 0610 Salisbury - Waterloo 3m 74ch
33118 Waterloo - Grateley 1L03 0810 Waterloo - Salisbury 72m 49ch
33112) Grateley - Waterloo 1O47 0839 Yeovil Jn - Waterloo 72m 49ch
33108)(Top & Tail & In Multi)
33112 Waterloo - Basingstoke 1L07 1210 Waterloo - Salisbury 47m 61ch
33113 Basingstoke - Waterloo 1L06 1212 Salisbury - Waterloo 47m 61ch
33108 Waterloo - Salisbury 1L09 1410 Waterloo - Salisbury 83m 43ch
33052 Salisbury - Waterloo 1L12 1630 Salisbury - Waterloo 83m 43ch
33103 Waterloo - Basingstoke 1L15 1842 Waterloo - Salisbury 47m 61ch
51190# / 59105# / 53223# 1954 Basingstoke - Reading 15m 01ch
47648# Reading - Paddington 1V98 1813 Wolverhampton - Paddington 35m 78ch
33112 Waterloo - Basingstoke 1L19 2210 Waterloo - Salisbury 47m 61ch
33103 Basingstoke - Waterloo 1L16 2220 Salisbury - Waterloo 47m 61ch
Thursday 28/07/88
33103 Waterloo - Southampton 1Y01 0200 Waterloo - Fareham 79m 19ch
33118 Southampton - Fareham 1Y01 0200 Waterloo - Fareham 14m 56ch
33118 Fareham - Basingstoke 2Y66 0527 Fareham - Basingstoke 36m 40ch
33118 Basingstoke - Yeovil Jn 2V06 0632 Basingstoke - Yeovil Jn 74m 67ch
33118 Yeovil Jn - Salisbury 1O47 0839 Yeovil Jn - Waterloo 39m 01ch
33118) Salisbury - Waterloo 1O47 0839 Yeovil Jn - Waterloo 83m 43ch
33102)(Top & Tail & In Multi)
Time to head home for a much needed bath & some fresh clothes. I also knew a Mystex was running to Canterbury and a Crompton was the expected traction.
5155 Waterloo East - London Bridge 1127 Charing Cross - Dartford 1m 09ch
5464 London Bridge - Lewisham 11xx Charing Cross - Dartford 4m 14ch
5154 Lewisham - Chatham 1143 Charing Cross - Gillingham (Kent) 28m 20ch
1542 Chatham - Sittingbourne 1223 Victoria - Ramsgate 10m 34ch
Not long before I left home to travel to Canterbury, I recieved a phone call that one of the Inter Regionals had failed & 33027 was working that - TWO Cromptons working out of the South Eastern division of BR on the same day - unheard of but offering me no extra mileage.
1500 / 1507 Sittingbourne - Faversham 1450 Victoria - Ramsgate 7m 18ch
3210# Faversham - Canterbury East 1423 Victria - Dover Priory 9m 68ch
33053 Canterbury West - Bromley South 1650 Canterbury West - Carlisle Mystex 97m 15ch
Both trains were booked via Mitre Bridge Jn where an electric would work forward, so I decided to bail here for 33027 forward on the service train.
33027 Bromley South - Mitre Bridge Jn 1M31 1718 Folkestone Central - Liverpool Lime St 15m 42ch
86408 Mitre Bridge Jn - Coventry 1M31 1718 Folkestone Central - Liverpool Lime St 88m 56ch
86209 Coventry - Euston xxxx Wolverhampton - Euston 93m 79ch
33108 Waterloo - Woking 2B69 2345 Waterloo - Bournemouth/Salisbury 24m 27ch
Friday 29/07/88
3006 Woking - Waterloo 24m 27ch
33103 Waterloo - Southampton 1Y01 0200 Waterloo - Fareham 79m 19ch
33109 Southampton - Fareham 1Y01 0200 Waterloo - Fareham 14m 56ch
33109 Fareham - Basingstoke 2Y66 0527 Fareham - Basingstoke 36m 40ch
73131) Basingstoke - Waterloo 0515 Poole - Waterloo 47m 61ch
73135)
89001# Finsbury Park - Kings X 0700 Peterborough - Kings X 2m 41ch
Yes a real Ned leap on the class 89 (and I never had it again!)
4306# / 4322# / 3124# / 3016 Waterloo - Clapham Jn 0847 Waterloo - Guildford 3m 74ch
1278# / 1298 / 1296# Clapham Jn - East Croydon 7m 63ch
47454# East Croydon - Mitre Bridge Jn xxxx Brighton - 13m 37ch
86420 Mitre Bridge Jn - Watford Jn xxxx Brighton - 12m 52ch
317306# Watford Jn - Euston 17m 35ch
87017 Euston - Manchester Piccadilly 1330 Euston - Manchester Piccadilly 187m 40ch
31276# Manchester Victoria - Salford Crescent 2F12 1707 Man Vic - Southport 1m 20ch
142037 Salford Crescent - Manchester Victoria 1m 20ch
37430 Manchester Piccadilly - Wilmslow 1V18 1817 Man Picc - Cardiff 12m 06ch
87025 Wilmslow - Nuneaton 1830 Man Picc - Euston 79m 65ch
Sprinter Nuneaton - Loughborough 31m 25ch
20097#) Loughborough - Nuneaton 1M22 1840 Skegness - Nuneaton 31m 25ch
20176#)
So the pair of Bombs produced this week.
86248# Nuneaton - Crewe 1D81 2145 Euston - Holyhead 60m 70ch
86415# Crewe - Birmingham New St 1V27 2340 Liverpool Lime St - Paignton 52m 52ch
Saturday 30/07/88
No early hours moves today, during the last 3 months of weekend scratch moves I'd taken to sleeping in the waiting room at the South end of Platform 1 during the early hours on a Saturday - this waiting room had been given the nickname "Poodle's Kennel" by the many cranks who would also be sleeping at New Street at this time. Always up about 0400 to go upstairs to find out todays runners & riders before 1E26 of course.
37682) Birmingham New Street - Welshpool 1J18 0620 Birm New St - Aberystwyth 62m 18ch
37684#)
37084# Welshpool - Shrewsbury 1A31 0714 Aberystwyth - Euston 19m 54ch
47571# Shrewsbury - Telford 1A31 0714 Aberystwyth - Euston 14m 06ch
47456 Telford - Shrewsbury 1J19 0740 Euston - Pwllheli 19m 54ch
37278#) Shrewsbury - Welshpool 1J19 0740 Euston - Pwllheli 19m 54ch
37185#)
37682) Welshpool - Wolverhampton 1A44 1010 Aberystwyth - Euston 49m 34ch
37684)
86220# Wolverhampton - Birmingham New St 1V95 1218 Man Picc - Poole 12m 64ch
85030# Birmingham New St - Wolverhampton 1M14 1000 Weymouth - Liverpool Lime St 12m 64ch
87003# Wolverhampton - Birmingham New St 1G12 1418 Man Picc - Birm International 12m 64ch
86103# Birmingham New St - Coventry 1A63 1531 Shrewsbury - Euston 18m 74ch
47631 Coventry - Nuneaton 1M09 1400 Poole - Nottingham 10m 15ch
47019# Nuneaton - Birmingham New St 1M34 1430 Yarmouth - Birmingham New St 21m 00ch
45141 Birmingham New St - Burton 1E38 1720 Cardiff - Leeds 30m 18ch
150??? Burton - Birmingham New St 30m 18ch
47658# Birmingham New St - Paddington 1V99 2058 Birmingham New St - Paddington 134m 53ch
There was always some frenetic usage of the BR All Line timetable I can tell you.
Sunday 31/07/88
33118 Waterloo - Portsmouth Hbr 1Y01 0330 Waterloo - Portsmouth Hbr 105m 08ch
(via Southampton)
33118 Portsmouth Hbr - Waterloo 2T10 0651 Portsmouth Hbr - Waterloo 95m 34ch
(via Eastleigh)
33118 Waterloo - Clapham Jn 1L05 0940 Waterloo - Salisbury 3m 74ch
3068# Clapham Jn - Waterloo 3m 74ch
5156 Waterloo East - London Bridge 1m 08ch
5605# London Bridge - Chatham 1113 Charing X - Gillingham (Kent) 33m 15ch
1586 Chatham - Sittingbourne 1123 Victoria - Dover Western Docks 10m 34ch
Well that was a busy 9 days or so. This marked the end of my Summer of scratching locos, the good couple of days I had on the Waterloo - Salisbury's on this All Line Rover got my appetite back for accumulating more Crompton mileage, even though this would mainly be with 33/1's.
Cheers Poodle.
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