1. Day 1-27.05.78

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Bath-Paddington-King's Cross-York-Leeds (Via Harrogate)-York-Grantham. Stayed at Grantham Youth Hostel.

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55022, stabled, London Kings Cross station
55022 'Royal Scots Grey' sits stabled on the blocks at London King's Cross station. This is one of the pictures resurrected from the negative strip that was not printed due to the obvious problems with it being out of focus. Photoshop has enabled it to be improved and presented as seen.
Keywords: 55022 stabled London Kings Cross station

55016, 09.00 London Kings Cross-Edinburgh (1S17), York station
55016 'Gordon Highlander' leaves York station working the 1S17 09.00 King's Cross to Edinburgh. Simon and I travelled on this train from London, the first journey of our Railrover. 55016 made it into preservation following withdrawn on 30.12.81. However, it has passed from owner to owner. At the time of writing it is on its 8th owner, Locomotive Services Limited who took ownership, along with 55022, from martin Walker in late 2017.
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40086, unidentified up working, York station
40086 arrives at York station with an unidentified up train.
Keywords: 40086 unidentified up working York station. Today, this view is dominated by the new National Railway Museum building. 40086 emerged from the Vulcan Woks as D286 in July 1960. It made it through to 1985, being condemned as 'life expired' at Gateshead Depot and broken up a month later at Doncaster Works.

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