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Tuesday 2.9.80 Train: 1A04, 07.00 Hull-KX “The Hull Executive” Loco:
55 005 The Prince of Wales’s
Own Regiment of Yorkshire Load: 9/306t tare, 320t gross |
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| Distance | Location | Actual m/s | Speed | notes |
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0.00 2.75 4.60 6.20 8.25 12.00 17.35 3.10 4.85 6.70 7.40 11.15 12.30 15.65 18.50 23.25 27.10 28.90 33.15 36.50 37.30 38.50 41.50 46.35 49.95 53.75 56.70 59.10 62.25 63.60 66.00 69.25 71.25 75.10 76.60 79.75 82.65 86.85 91.10 94.45 97.45 100.90 106.70 110.05 113.55 115.10 116.60 118.30 120.90 124.15 125.90 128.00 129.45 132.15 133.65 134.55 136.10 138.60 |
DONCASTER Black Carr Junction Rossington Milepost 149 3/4 Bawtry Ranskill RETFORD RETFORD Gamston Milepost 133 3/4 Tuxford Dukeries Jn Crow Park Carlton Bathley Lane Newark Claypole Hougham Barkston S Jn Grantham Great Ponton High Dyke Stoke Summit Corby Glen Little Bytham Essendine Tallington Helpston Werrington Jn Peterborough Fletton Jn Yaxley Holme Conington S Abbots Ripton Milepost 62 Huntingdon Offord St.Neots Tempsford Sandy Biggleswade Arlesey Three Counties Hitchin Stevenage (old) Knebworth Woolmer Green Welwyn North Welwyn Garden City Hatfield Brookmans Park Potters Bar Hadley Wood New Barnet New Southgate Wood Green Hornsey Finsbury Park KINGS CROSS |
0.00 3.53 5.15 6.22 7.42 9.53 15.33 4.14 5.42 6.56 7.26 9.41 10.20 12.21 13.54 16.39 18.54 19.57 22.28 24.28 25.01 25.52 27.44 30.34 32.41 35.00 36.45 38.07 39.58 40.46 42.06 44.03 45.15 47.41 48.34 50.25 52.01 54.30 56.53 58.57 60.41 63.11 66.10 68.16 70.24 71.06 72.11 73.12 74.45 76.43 77.45 79.07 80.56 84.03 85.05 85.39 86.42 91.33 |
- 77 88 86/ - 99 104 - 69 77 92 92 106 103 107 102 105/103 105 102 100/103 94 85 - 107 103 96 105 108/107 99 102 102 104/102 105 106/101 95 97 108 102/107 105/107 102/103 99/101 106 103 99/100 95 103 105 100 99/102 98 102 98 braking - 81 - 94 60 - |
pws in Barnet area probable sigs |
September 2nd, 1980 was very much The Prince‘s day being in charge of both up and down Hull Executives - and a day she proved to be as free running as ever. On 1A04 with load 9, (one over the usual 8) the run from Doncaster to Retford was good with a maximum of 104 at Ranskill which went some way to offsetting the effects of the pw slack between there and Retford which, if memory serves me right, had been in force for some time in 1980. After the Retford pick-up, no 5 was put to it and, with momentum gained on the downhill after Markham Summit, continued in fine style on the rising grades across the Trent Valley to and beyond Grantham. I missed the actual speed at Stoke Summit but The Prince had already slipped back to 85 past High Dyke which was either a mis-judgement of the 90mph limit or she’d sighted adverse signals. But a couple of minutes later she was streaming through Corby Glen at a cool 107. Now we flew unchecked until the London suburbs with both the 1 in 200 climbs to Milepost 62 and past Hitchin to Stevenage carried without much of a drop below the ‘ton’.
A real corker of a time from Retford to The Cross was wrecked by the severe slack at Barnet costing, as it did, around 2 and a half minutes. Our speed in the vicinity of Finsbury Park also suggests we got slight “signals”. To illustrate the cost of these checks, compare The Prince’s time of 13 mins 48 from Potters Bar to KX with that of 55 002 on 1A04, Jan 3rd,’81 where, unchecked and without excessive speeds, KOYLI took over 3 minutes less. Without these hindrances, the net time would be around 88.5 minutes equating to an average speed, start to stop from Retford, of just under 94mph – amazing for an engine supposedly limited to 100 mph. As it was, No 5’s actual flying average from Tuxford to Potters Bar, 119.2 miles, was 100.99mph.
Log courtesy of Richard Barrick.