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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...
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...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.
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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 |
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| Distance | Location | Booked | Actual m/s | Speed | Notes |
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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 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. | |
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03/01/80 - 1A04 07:00 Hull - King's Cross (with "The Hull Executive" headboard). In Memory of the Deltics: 55002 section. |
