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Resplendent after its final Intermediate overhaul 55006 (D9006) "THE FIFE & FORFAR YEOMANRY" makes the Newcastle stop with the 1S12 07:45 King’s Cross - Edinburgh, "The Silver Jubilee" service on the 29th June 1977. The locomotive had arrived at Doncaster Works for overhaul on the 21st March and was released on the 28th June 1977.

The service lost its title with the onset of 1978 and became a regular HST diagram prior to a more intensive HST service in May of that year.

 

 

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January

06 - EMI sack the Sex Pistols for outrageous behaviour.
10 - Pollution is attacking the Acropolis.
14 - Anthony Eden (Prime Minister UK 1955-7) dies.
17 - Train crash in Sydney - 80 dead.
23 - Pink Floyd release the album "Animals".
29 - Seven IRA bombs explode in London's West End.
       King's Cross Phase One throat remodelling begins (ends 04.03.77)

February

06 - Silver Jubilee of Queen's accession to the throne.
26 - British Leyland warn of plant closures to end strikes.

March

01 - The Deep Purple MkIV live album "Last Concert In Japan" is released.
07 - King's Cross Phase Two throat remodelling begins (completed 01.04.77)
14 - UK government says prices have risen 69.5% since 1974.
18 - The Deep Purple MkII single "Smoke On The Water" is released.
27 - Two Boeing 747's collide on Tenerife airport runway a Pan Am and KLM jet - 574 dead.
29 - Dutch official admits KLM jet had not been granted take-off at Tenerife.

April

02 - Red Rum wins Aintree Grand National - record 3rd time.
........MP Airey Neave says Sinn Fein should be banned.
16 -
No Deltics operating from Edinburgh due to industrial dispute.
29 - British Aerospace is formed.

May

01 - 'Star Wars' the film is released.
13 - Kerry Packer offers cricketers a series of internationals in Australia for financial reward.
15 - Liverpool win league title - record 10th time.
21 - FA Cup: Manchester United 2, Liverpool 1.
25 - European Cup: Liverpool 3, Borussia Moenchengladbach 1 - in Rome.

June

01 - The Minstrel wins the Derby - ridden by Lester Piggott (record 8th time).
04 - Fans dig up Wembley pitch after Scotland beat England 2-1.
06 - Beacons are lit across the UK to begin Silver Jubilee celebrations.
08 -
55012 "CREPELLO" hauls inaugural 07:45 King's Cross - Edinburgh "Silver Jubilee".

July

01 - Virginia Wade beats Betty Stove in women's final at Wimbledon.
02 - Miners demand £135 wage and 4-day week.
10 - 31 die in torrential rain in France.
12 - Average house price in London is £16,731.
13 - looting in New York as blackout hits city.
30 - UK TV licenses rise - colour £21, black & white £9.

August

11 - As Kerry Packer takes Cricket to the courts Geoffrey Boycott scores his 100th century.
12 - US space shuttle makes maiden flight on the back of Boeing 747, gliding to earth safely.
16 - Elvis Presley dies.
19 - US actor and comedian Julius "Groucho" Marx dies.
20 - US space probe Voyager 2 is launched towards Jupiter, Saturn and possibly Uranus.

September

02 - UK inflation drops to 11%.
12 - Steve Biko dies in detention in South Africa.
16 - Rock star Marc Bolan dies as his Mini hits tree.
25 - 15,000 attend Biko's funeral.
26 - Freddie Laker launches 'Skytrain' - cheap transatlantic flights.
29 - Boxing: Ali beats Ernie Shavers.
30 - The Deep Purple MkII live single "Black Night" is released - prelude to album "Powerhouse".

October

02 - Niki Lauda wins world motor racing championship in Austria.
03 - Mrs. Gandhi is arrested on two charges of corruption.
08 - Undertakers strike in London - 800 remain unburied.
14 - US actor Bing Crosby dies.
17 -
BR maintenance staff 'black' all Deltics over industrial dispute w/e 17/10.
28 - Yorkshire police say they are looking for a man known as the 'Yorkshire Ripper'.

November

15 - The Deep Purple MkII compilation album "Powerhouse" is released.
25 - Packer wins cricket court case.

December

03 - Exodus of Vietnam refugees begins.
25 - Charlie Chaplin dies.

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