30th September - 1st October 1983

F & W Tours
The Moors Marauder

Locos Used 37066, 40122, 45143, 50021, 50024 & 86009

Route : 1Z47 throughout

Date Locos Route
30/09 50024 Plymouth – Exeter – Taunton – Weston-Super-Mare – Bristol Temple Meads – Bristol Parkway – Gloucester
30/09 50024 Gloucester – Cheltenham – Worcester Shrub Hill – Bromsgrove – King’s Norton – Birmingham New Street
01/10 86009 Birmingham New Street – Soho South Jn – Perry Barr North Jn – Bescot – Bushbury Jn – Stafford – Crewe – Wilmslow – Stockport
01/10 40122 Stockport – Denton Jn – Guide Bridge – Stalybridge – Marsden – Huddersfield – Wakefield Kirkgate – Altofts Jn – Church Fenton – York – Northallerton – Thornaby – Middlesbrough
01/10 37066 Middlesbrough – Saltburn
01/10 37066 Saltburn - Middlesbrough
01/10 40122 Middlesbrough – Battersby
01/10 40122 Battersby – Grosmont (for North York Moors Railway Diesel Gala) – Whitby
01/10 40122 Whitby – (reverse of outard route) - York – Pontefract Baghill – Rotherham – Beighton Jn – Chesterfield – Ambergate – Derby – Tamworth – Birmingham New Street
01/10 50021 Birmingham New St. – King’s Norton – Bromsgrove – Cheltenham – Gloucester Yard Jn (1)
01/10 45143 Gloucester Yard Jn – Bristol Parkway – Bristol Temple Meads – (reverse of outward route) - Plymouth

Notes :
(1) 50021 failed at Gloucester Yard Jn.


40122 captured on film during a photo-stop at Glaisdale (photo: Ian Jordan)

Sources : Ian Monkton (joined/left train at Bristol Temple Meads) & Harry Harper

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