0961 - Photo: Bob Peach.

55002 (D9002) "THE KING'S OWN YORKSHIRE LIGHT INFANTRY" waits at Hull on the morning of Saturday 3rd January 1981 with the final loco hauled 1A04 07:00 Hull - King's Cross complete with  "Hull Executive" headboard...


0960 - Photo: Bob Peach.

...Journey's end: On 3rd January 1981 55002 rests at King's Cross buffer stops having brought in the 1A04 07:00 service from Hull. The 1A04 was an untitled service on Saturdays and Sundays, however, as it was the final week of locomotive operation on both the 1A04 and 1D04 trains the  "Hull Executive" headboard was fittingly carried. There was no Sunday 1A04 service and as of Monday 5th January these diagrams passed over to HST operation. 

Saturday 3.1.81

Train: 1A04, 07.00 Hull-Kings Cross “The Hull Executive”

Loco: 55 002 “The King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry”

Load 8/272t tare/295t gross

Distance Location Booked Actual m/s Speed Notes

    0.00

    3.35

    4.15

    5.35

    8.35

  13.20

  16.80

  20.60

  23.55

  25.95

  29.10

  30.45

  32.85

  36.10

  38.10

  41.95

  43.45

  46.60

  49.50

  53.70

  57.95

  61.30

  64.30

  68.35

  69.75

  73.55

  76.90

  80.40

  83.45

  85.15

  87.75

  91.00

  92.75

  94.85

  96.30

  99.00

100.50

102.95

105.45

GRANTHAM

Great Ponton

High Dyke

Stoke Summit

Corby Glen

Little Bytham

Essendine

Tallington

Helpston

Werrington Jn

Peterborough

Fletton Jn

Yaxley

Holme

Conington

Abbots Ripton

Milepost 62

Huntingdon

Offord

St Neots

Tempsford

Sandy

Biggleswade

Arlesey

Three Counties

Hitchin

Stevenage (old)

Knebworth

Welwyn Nth

Welwyn GC

Hatfield

Brookmans Pk

Potters Bar

Hadley Wood

New Barnet

New Southgate

Wood Green

Finsbury Park

KING’S CROSS

  0

 

   (4)

  10

 

 

 

  19.25

 

 

  24.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

  35

 

 

 

44

 

   (2)

 

  53.5

 

 

 

 

 

 

66

 

   (2)

 

  72.5

 

  78.5

   0.00

   6.08

 10.06

 11.31

 13.40

 16.39

 18.46

 21.04

 22.57

 24.27

 27.02

 29.34

 31.38

 33.49

      -

 37.31

 38.24

 40.17

 42.02

 44.36

 47.11

 49.14

 51.01

 53.41

 54.19

 56.36

 58.39

 60.48

 63.54

 65.16

 66.57

 68.55

 69.56

 71.12

 72.02

 73.40

 74.38

      -

 80.29

          -

         23

           -

           -

         98

  100/99

    97/99/101

    97/98

       101

  99/100

  sigs 27

         51

         80

         97

      99/-/98

    96/97

         99

101/100

  99/101

  98/101

    96/97

         99

       101

  96/103

       101

  98/100

         99/105

      95/-

 sigs 68

        86

        97

      101

      101

      101

        99

      100

        93

        82

          -

To up slow.

Dead stand then to up fast.

 

 

This run was of course that of the last up Hull Executive, and although in no way an all-time great run, it’s interesting from this point of view alone. The running from Hull to Doncaster was beset by delays and we actually eased us out of platform 1 and set sail for Retford about 25 minutes down. We ran fast to Retford with 103 at Ranskill, the start-to-stop from Donny being only 14mins 21. But with signals in the Bathley Lane area we took 17mins 22 to pass Newark from Retford, a time normally bettered start-to-stop. No 2 recovered well over the Trent Valley to Peascliffe with 101 at Hougham falling off to just 97 on the 1 in 200 to the tunnel. After Grantham and presumably ‘out of path’, things got off to a bad start with a visit to the up slow and a dead stand, all before Stoke Tunnel. The run to The Cross, tabulated, was competent though in truth, given the arrears of around 30 minutes leaving Grantham, disappointing. I suppose some drivers are ‘runners’ and some not. However, KOYLI’s minimum of 99mph at Stevenage after the climb through Hitchin and 101 climbing to Potter’s Bar was a show of Napier strength which no timidity up front could disguise.

Log courtesy of Richard Barrick.

03/01/80 - 1A04 07:00 Hull - King's Cross (with "The Hull Executive" headboard). Deltic Deadline No.42: Page 18.
03/01/80 - 1A04 07:00 Hull - King's Cross (with "The Hull Executive" headboard). In Memory of the Deltics:  55002 section.

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