Sample workings of this rare “roarer”
E3038 crew training, Crewe DED 120860
renumbered 100572 as 84003
84003 0610 Blackpool – Euston 070873
84003 viewed Leighton Buzzard 110873
84003 cement at Pitstone 080475
84003 1M41 2150 (1/8) York – Shrewsbury (Stockport-Crewe) 020875
84003 Crewe LHS 210378
84003 Chesterfield – Carnforth/Carlisle “Merrymaker” (Carnforth – Carlisle) 230778
84003 Rtn Glasgow – Crewe rtn Ayrshire and Galloway Ranger RT 300978
84003 Willesden E Sidings 191078
84003 Mystex ex Manchester (at Wolves) 270579
84003 Bletchley TMD 090679
84003 2345 (1307) Glas/Edinburgh-Plymouth 140779 flikr
84003 1103 Birmingham – Aberdeen 140779
84003 1515 Glasgow – Nottingham (to Carlisle) 230380
84003 Stanlow – Salford tanks, minor fire South of Rugby 230480
84003 Bletchley TMD 1105-260580
After her minor fire 84003 is photted by Keith Jackson on Bletchley TMD undergoing repairs on May 12th 1980.
84003 1S19 2130 (28/6) Bristol – Glas/Edin 290680
84003 officially withdrawn 1180
84003 transferred to departmental service at Derby RTC Jan 81 as spares donor for load bank loco 84009
84003 expired locally with fire damage on April 23rd 1980. She was eventually transfered to the departmental sector as a spares donor for the RTC’s 84009. 84003 is seen at Derby RTC on August 14th 1982. She was cut early in 1986 another North British loco lost..
84003 cut up at Vic Berrys Leicester 0386, another rare piece of North British engineering confined to scrap..
Thanks to Jim Burton for thus rare 84003 performance log from the Summer of 75. A case perhaps of the motive power mattered per se and the performance was nigh irrelevant. The following falls into that category – my only run behind a Class 84!! I was bound for the North Wales Coast and 1M41 had already produced 40083 (YK) much to my satisfaction.
Having arrived at Stockport there was no loco to work the Shrewsbury portion!
Festering for some 30 minutes on Stockport platform proved to be well worth the effort when at last the loco turned up!!
Date :- 02/08/75
Train:- 1M41 2150 York-Shrewsbury
Locomotive :- 84003 (CE)
Load :- 5 coaches 171 tons tare
Status ;- 26 minutes late departing Stockport
26.75 minutes late arriving Crewe
0.00. Stockport. 0. 0. 00. –
2.35. Cheadle Hulme 4 17 41/50/62
4.70. Handforth 6 12 70/78/80
6.11. Wilmslow 7 11 80/85
7.74. Alderley Edge 8 25 80/81
10.79. Chelford 10 38 82/83
14.63. Goostrey 13 26 82/80
16.54. Holmes Chapel 14. 49 83
20.38. Sandbach 17. 56 82/80/*66
PWS *30/*42
24.96. Crewe. 26 26 39 44/38/31/-
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