Yarmouth/Lowestoft-York route

[strang steel]

I am looking through old monthly magazines for another project.

In the Nov 1957 edition of Trains Illustrated I found these.

7th September 1957 - Noted passing Saxilby on the Liverpool to Parkestone Quay boat train - 61621 & 61627 double heading.

8th September 1957 - Noted passing Saxilby on the York - Yarmouth - 73162 & 60918 double heading

14th September 1957 - Noted passing Saxilby on the York - Yarmouth - 73162 & 61021 double heading



It would appear from the photo and these observation that, in 1957, 73162 was a regular performer on the York - Yarmouth, at least as far as Lincoln.

[neilgow]

Round about the summer of 1957, we visited Scarborough, the line back south to Driffield was blocked by a derailment in the Filey area so we had to go back via York, Market Weighton and Beverley. The locomotive that hauled us to York from Scarborough was 61659 "East Anglian". I have often wondered why a B17 was on such a working but if they worked in from East Anglia, I suppose it could have been used as a fill in turn with the summer traffic.

Bye the bye, the LNER Weekend on the NYMR was excellent. 60163 climbing the 1:49 into Grosmont was certainly noisy and exhilarating.

NG

[strang steel]

An excellent memory neilgow.

I am sure that borrowed locos were far more widespread than is realised.

For instance, on 9th September 1957, 34091 worked a troop train to Brandon and then ran with empty stock to Cambridge. Because, for some reason, the West Country could not be turned at Cambridge, it ran to Ely l/e and turned on the triangle there before returning to Cambridge to pick up the empty stock.

Try running a WC pacific into Ely on an exhibition model, and see the reaction from the "rivet counters".

[60022Mallard]

As a general rule I believe that WTTs only show loco and crew changing and water stops with suitable indicative notation where the train is not booked to stop for commercial reasons.