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Steam-heat bashing back in the 80s 😎 Tip-Top (Class 27) 27045 venting a fine plume of steam at the head of 1M89 15.45 Glasgow Central - Carlisle seen at Barrhead
The fine art of bashing - steam-heat memories from 1986 With steam-heat about to come to an end, my close bashing friends Tim & Llew and I made the trip north to see what we could sample, aiming mainly for the Class 27 Tip-Tops on Edinburgh-Dundees - otherwise known as 'The Circuit'. If a dreaded steaming Duff turned up, we still took it, to get as much steam as we could! , , We made two separate trips of a week each - this first trip commenced on the evening of Saturday 1st February by taking 45128 on 1P03 00.10 London St. Pancras - Derby, and culminated with this amazingly lucky 'fall-on' of 27045 on 1M89 from Glasgow to Carlisle for a +10 connection for 1M52 back to London Euston - hauled by none other than pioneer 'Electric Scot' 87001 'Royal Scot' 😎 :), , I was very pleased indeed to 'fall' onto this fine 'Tip-Top' 27045 for my journey home, on a Glasgow-Carlisle service via the Glasgow & South Western route taking in Kilmarnock, Kirkconnel, Dumfries and Annan. Seen here steaming away at the Barrhead station stop - the friendly driver who gave me a CAB RIDE at Dunlop in view :), , My original note book states the following:, 27045 - last major overhaul 5/12/1981, 47ETH was booked on 1M89, but not available. Crew were sent to Polmadie to collect 27045 to do the job, hence the late arrival of the loco and departure of train., Replacements for the 27s have been promised, but nothing has yet materialised!, , 'A day in the life' - log book update: , Friday 7th February 1986 - 27045 (ex 27101) on 1M89 15.45 Glasgow Central - Carlisle (4 Mk Is - rode in M35453 & M19000), dep. GLASGOW CENTRAL 15.53 (+8), Barrhead 16.04-05 (2x pics departing), , CAB RIDE! Dunlop 16.18 (+10), Stewarton 16.23, Kilmaurs 16.28, KILMARNOCK 16.32-34 (+11) (pic venting steam while stopped on the UP platform!), Auchinleck 16.54 (+11) 😎 , , Kirkconnel 17.10-11 (+11), DUMFRIES 17.38-40 (+7), Annan 17.56-18.02 (+6) (47551 passed on down), Crossed the border 18.15, arr. CARLISLE Plat 3 18.24 (+9) (3 pics taken from 1M52 18.34 Carlisle - London Euston - my train home hauled by 87001 'Royal Scot' 😎), , 115 miles (22 miles in the cab!), , Locomotive History - D5374 Delivered new in February 1962 as D5374 - spent the first eight years allocated in the Thornaby and Leicester areas before moving to Eastfield in November 1969. Was fitted with air brakes from July 1971 for working on the high speed push/pull services between Edinburgh and Glasgow. Renumbered as 27101 in April 1974. By September 1984 the loco had been renumbered again to 27045 - finally being withdrawn from service in May 1986, and ironically returning to Leicester for cutting up at Vic Berry's by the end of 1988 (see photo below). Info courtesy of D9020 :), , More gen from my great pal superb50002 : "045 was withdrawn at 0930 on May 12th 1986 at Haymarket depot, which by co-incidence (?) was the first day of the new timetable. Its boiler was isolated on April 30th, 1986. 045 went out in style - it's last working being a pair with 27001 on 2J34 0615 Dundee - Edinburgh on May 12th itself - on arrival, both locos light to Haymarket, split, and 045 was COND at 0930.....no reason given as to why it was switched off....", , Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens using Kodak CM400 high-speed film. Scanned from the original negative with minimal digital restoration, , You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/
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