3rd March 2012

Railway Touring Company
The Lincolnshire Poacher

Locos Used 47760 & steam: 70013 'Oliver Cromwell'
Stock Used ?????

Route :
1Z54 : London Kings Cross to Cleethorpes
1Z55 : Cleethorpes to London Kings Cross

Loco(s) Route
70013 London Kings Cross - (via ECML) - Retford - Thrumpton West Jn - Worksop - Worksop Sorting Sidings
70013 (1) Worksop Sorting Sidings - Shireoaks - Brancliffe East Jn - Firbeck West Jn - St Catherine's Jn - Low Ellers Curve Jn - Kirk Sandall Jn - Hatfield & Stainforth - Scunthorpe - Wrawby Jn - Barnetby - Brocklesby Jn - Habrough - Grimsby Town - Cleethorpes (2)
47760 Cleethorpes - (reverse of outward route) - Wrawby Jn - Market Rasen - Lincoln Central - Boultham Jn - Swinderby - Newark Crossing East Jn - Newark Northgate - (via ECML) - London Kings Cross

Notes :
(1) 47760 on rear for ETS purposes (though is reported to have provided assistance away from Worksop).
(2) 70013 was failed at Cleethorpes resulting in it's removal along with its support coach. Had 70013 not been failed then the train would have been hauled by 47760 to Ulceby (originally advertised to have been New Holland) where the train would have reversed for 70013 to lead back to London.

Sources : Nick Blyth

Photo Review


70013 on arrival into Cleethorpes (photo: Nick Blyth)


Unexpected traction back into Kings Cross - 47760 (photo: Nick Blyth)


Timings (Booked & Actual)
(from Nick Blyth)

Location Booked Actual   Booked (rtn) Actual
Kings Cross 07.12d [P2] [FL1] ?   21.24a [P1] 19.40
Belle Isle 07/15 [FL] ?   21/21 [FL1] ?
Finsbury Park 07/19 [P3] [FL] ?   21/17 [FL] ?
Alexandra Palace 07/22 [FL] ?   21/15 [P1] [FL] ?
Potter Bar 07.31a ~ 07.34d [P4] [SL] ?   21.04a ~ 21.07d [P2] [FL] ?
Welwyn Garden City 07/45 [P3] [SL] ?   20/56 [FL] ?
Digswell Jn 07/48 [FL] ?   ? ?
Woolmer Green Jn 07/50 [FL] ?   20/52 [FL] ?
Stevenage 07.55a ~ 07.57d [P3] [FL] ?   20.46a ~ 20.48d [P1] [FL] ?
Hitchin 08/02 [P2] [FL] ?   20/40 [P1] [SL] ?
Biggleswade 08/11 [P4] [SL] ?   ? ?
Sandy 08/15 [P2] [SL] ?   20/26 [P1] [SL] ?
Huntingdon 08.29a ~ 08.31d [P3] [SL] ?   20/09 [P2] [SL] ?
Connington South Jn   20/03 [FL] ?
Holme Jn 08w41 ~ 08w56 [FL] ?  
Peterborough 09.04a ~ 09.07d [P4] [FL] ?   19.50a ~ 19.53d [P3] [FL] ?
New England North Jn   19/10 [GL] ?
Tallington Jn 09/16 [SL] ?   18/59 [SL] ?
Stoke Jn 09/33 ?   18/44 [SL] ?
Grantham 09.39 ~ 09.42 [P2] ?   18/38 [P1] ??.?? ~ ??.??
Claypole Loop 09/52 ?   18/29 ?
Newark Northgate 09/57 [P1] ?   18.02 ~ 18.23 [UG] [GL] ?

 

Location Booked Actual
Newark Flat Crossing 09/58 ?
Retford 10/14 [P2] ?
Thrumpton West Jn 10/18 ?
Worksop 10/27 ?
Worksop Sorting Sidings 10w30 ~ 10w58 ?
Shireoaks East Jn 11/00 ?
Shireoaks 11/01 ?
Brancliffe East Jn 11/03 ?
Dinnington Jn 11/13 ?
Maltby Colliery SB 11/30 ?
Firbeck Jn 11/36 ?
St Catherine's Jn 11/45 ?
Low Ellers Curve Jn 11/47 ?
Kirk Sandall Jn 12/00 ?
Hatfield & Stainforth 12/04 ?
Thorne Jn 12/07 ?
Crowle 12/17 ?
Scunthorpe 12/29 [P1] ?
Appleby LC 12/35 ?
Elsham 12/43 ?
Wrawby Jn 12/46 ?
Barnetby 12/49 [P2] ?
Brocklesby Jn 12/55 ?
Habrough 12/57 [P2] ?
Stallingborough 13/01 [UM] ?
Grimsby Town 13/10 [P1] ?
Cleethorpes [P1] 13.20a ~ 15.45d [P3] 13.40 ~ ??.??
Grimsby Town 16/06 [P2] ?
Stallingborough 16/13 ?
Habrough 16/22 ?
Ulceby 16.26 ~ 16.30 ?
Brocklesby Jn 16/33 ?
Barnetby 16/39 [P3] [SL] ?
Wrawby Jn 16/41 ?
Holton-le-Moor SB 16/53 ?
Market Rasen 17.01 ~ 17.13 ?
Wickenby SB 1/21 ?
Langworth SB 17/27 ?
Pelham Street Jn 17/37 ?
Lincoln Central 17/38 [UM] ?
West Holmes Jn 17/40 ?
Boultham Jn 17/41 ?
Newark Crossing East Jn 18/00 ?

Timings continue in first table.

Associated E.C.S. Moves

5Z54 : (47500 & stock) : Hornsey to London Kings Cross
5Z55 : (47500 + stock + 47760) : London Kings Cross via Horney Flyover to Hornsey


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