The Burntisland Bellower remembered, 30 Sep and 1 Oct 1983
Boris the basher!
31327} 1Z98 Sheffield-Burntisland Bellower Railtour Sheffield-Edin
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26001} 1Z98 Sheffield-Burntisland Bellower Railtour Edin-Mosssend (via Burntisland)
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20149} 1Z98 Burntisland-Sheffield Bellower Railtour Mossend-Carlisle (via Ayr)
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25051} 1Z98 Burntisland-Sheffield Bellower Railtour Carlisle-Newcastle
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31327} 1Z98 Burntisland-Sheffield Bellower Railtour Newcastle-Sheffield
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Tour Itinary click for large version, thanks to Trev Rolfe
Tour Itinary page 2 click for large version, thanks to Trev Rolfe
Steaming goyles 31327/31291 soon had us on the move from Sheffield at 2357 exactly but our sleep was interupted at York where a defective BK had to be removed due to an alleged screwing the brakes down incident. A new BK was soon shunted on but we had lost 40 minutes or so. Much of the lost time was made up by a storming run from the Goyles. I awoke somewhere in the Berwick area with myself and all around in a state, the stock was rocking wildly, we were flying. Staggering goyles, not this pair.
A short break saw fodder raked in before departing from Edinburgh round various slow speed MGR haunts our xos 26’s (001 and 006) were familiar with before the whole train ritualistically bellowed as we thrashed through Burntisland. This alarmed an elderly lady on the up platform. Polmont then a main line burst of speed to Moss End where the 26’s were removed. Here green kettle Flying Scotsman was waiting to work North whilst Scottish choppers 20149/20202 provided the power onwards to Ayr. The “Boris the basher” headboard was very nearly put on the front of 4472 to wind up the kettle neds.
In the Kirconnel area , true to form one of the bombs blew up but the tour atmosphere failed to dip as much as our speed. At Carlisle the photo stop was abit of a scrum but it offered us the ch ance to stretch our legs and to admire the Boris the Basher club wielding Geoff Capes lookalike headboard on the replacement rat’s iron’s. Rat’s 25051 and 25239 to Newcastle, then those flying Goyles back to Sheffield where we arrived about 30 down. We made one of the last Summer Saturday workings of 1983 in the 2047 Sheffield-Bristol but it’s power in 47137 offered little to bellow about after the type 2 delights we had all enjoyed
Burntisland Bellower phot spot, 011083
26001 and 006 open up on the Dumfermline loop heading towards “Cardenrenrenren……”
Mossend “tractors” 37154 and 37155 looking good
Famous kettle at Mossend, shame “Boris” wasnt put on front!
Motherwell depot power as the 20’s whistle pass
20202 and 20149 at Carlisle after a run from Mossend via Ayr, the late Neil Webster looks on
Tony Ewer captures the forwarding 25051 and 25239 ready to depart at Carlisle
“Fog on the Tyne”, 25051 and 25239 approach Newcastle
Resident 03 West pilot, 03063 at Newcastle
Pre Tour moves and gen-29/9/83 Th
54371} 1703 Hitchin-Huntingdon Hitchin-Huntingdon
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37052 1708 Kings X-Peterborough
47409 1715 Kings X-Peterborough
47402 1741 Kings X-Peterborough Huntingdon-Peterborough
47459 1120 Glasgow-Harwich
56134} 1754 Cambridge-Leicester Peterborough-Oakham
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31424 1818 Birmingham-Norwich Oakham-Peterborough
31312 1807 Harwich-Peterborough
HST 2050 Kings X-Leeds Peterborough-Doncaster
47518 2054 Newcastle-Kings X Doncaster-Grantham
30/9/83 Fr
47018 2300 Kings X-Edinburgh Grantham-Doncaster
47410 2320 Kings X-Edinburgh
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47461 2110 Edinburgh-Kings X Doncaster-Retford
40024 0110 Manchester-Cleethorpes papers
31252 0210 Manchester-Cleethorpes Retford-Lincoln C
We were evicted from Retford’s low level platforms in case we “pinched the parcels” awtg loading, being escorted down by Bert just before departure time…
54044} 0550 Lincoln-Sheffield Lincoln SM-Gainsborough LRr
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31247 0555 Doncaster-Lincoln Gainsborough LR-Lincoln C
31406 0700 Cleethorpes-Newark Lincoln SM-Newark N
HST 0804 Kings X-Hull Newark-Doncaster
40024 at Doncaster with the Cleethorpes-Red Bank empties
DMU 0900 Cleethorpes-Manchester Doncaster-Rotherham (Masboro)
45146 1106 Leeds-Poole Rotherham-Sheffield
08879 Sheffield Shunt Sheffield-Sheffield
08879 after shunting the Leeds portion onto the Newcastle-Poole,at Sheffield
45143 0950 Newcastle-Poole
45140 0653 Plymouth-York
DMU 1145 Manchester-Hull Sheffield-Rotherham
Canton’s xos beast 47236 with MGR at Rotherham Masboro, long since closed
47440 1230 Leeds-Cardiff Rotherham-Sheffield
45121 1217 Birmingham-York
47542 1016 Barrow-Nottingham Sheffield-Chesterfield
HST 1245 St.Pancras-Sheffield Chesterfield-Sheffield
45140 1428 York-Plymouth Sheffield-Chesterfield
47215 1450 Birmingham-Leeds Chesterfield-Rotherham
47589 1530 Birmingham-York
31183 1635 Leeds-Sheffield Rotherham-Sheffield
47536 1150 Aberdeen-Nottingham Sheffield-Chesterfield
HST 1845 St.Pancras-Sheffield Chesterfield-Sheffield
Homeward move -01/10/83
47137 2047 Sheffield-Bristol SH-NS
25266} Aberystwyth-Coventry ret Charter
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45148 2140 Bristol-Glas/Edin
2/10/83 Su
088 0015 Birmingham-Euston NS-LB
Busy as ever, a top get you home train lost to privitisation progress.
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