25208 .. Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton .... 0845 Birmingham - Aberystwyth 1J25
25313 .. Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton .... 0845 Birmingham - Aberystwyth 1J25
47111 … Wolverhampton - Stafford ……………... 0935 Birmingham - Glasgow 1S61
47530 .. Stafford - Birmingham NS ……………… 0911 Manchester - Birmingham 1G60
47188 .. Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton …. 0850 Paddington - Manchester 1M11
47138 .. Wolverhampton - Birmingham NS …. 1109 Manchester - Paddington 1V38
47415 .. Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton …. 0925 Brighton - Manchester 1M00
47324 .. Wolverhampton - Birmingham NS …. 1305 Manchester - Paddington 1V53
46054 .. Birmingham NS - Cheltenham ………. 1205 Leeds - Plymouth 1V86
37059 .. Cheltenham - Birmingham NS ………. 1555 Cardiff - Newcastle 1E57
31263 .. Birmingham NS - Leicester ……………. 1837 Birmingham - Norwich 1E78
45128 .. Leicester - Loughborough ................ 1810 St. Pancras - Nottingham 1D22
20185 .. Loughborough - Leicester …………….. 1830 Skegness - Leicester 1M85
20198 .. Loughborough - Leicester …………….. 1830 Skegness - Leicester 1M85
31236 .. Leicester - Birmingham NS …………… 1824 Norwich - Birmingham 1M76
47337 .. Birmingham NS - Wolverhampton ... ? Portsmouth Hbr. - Wolverhampton

Note: I only made note of my loco hauled trains at this time.

I arrived at New Street in time for the Barmouth train. (It is of course going to Aberystwyth this year but old habits die hard and we kept calling it that). I was just two minutes too late to catch the York train which was headed by 47310. Of well, it might return later. I headed up to Stafford but there was nothing about there so it was back to Birmingham where one of the Gennie 47s worked a Wolves bound train and I found a 47/3 on the Paddington return. Back at New Street I ran into Yorkie who was looking a bit sad. The massively big 47374 was coming north now but at the same time there's an enormous 37 homing in from Cheltenham. We could wait for the 47 to arrive and then take it to Solihull, it wasn't possible now to get out there to catch it or we could go after the 37 and maybe get back in time for that Solihull move? So that was it. We had a Peak to get us to Cheltenham where, after a short wait, in rolled the 37 and we thrashed back north. The Lickey Incline dragged the speed down to 18 mph but the loco dropped a gear or two, switched into overdrive and maintained that speed.

Back at New Street we found that the 47 had come and gone. Mustoe and gang then descended on us, “where was the class 37?” Oh, you've missed it by five minutes was our response. It transpired they had taxied out to Leamington to try to get 47374 on its way in but had missed it there, returned to New Street to take it to Solihull and then had another taxi move to get back to New Street which hadn't made the 37. That had cost them £6 each (which in 2026 would be worth £33). Now I joined them for the class 31 out to Leicester and then a pub stop at Loughborough as we made our way for the class 20s back to Leicester and a 31 home. One of the guys wanted 47310 which had worked the York train in the morning and he was really flapping as 2100hrs approached. We told him nah, it wouldn't return but would you believe it, it did! Well I was almost leaving New Street when another 47/3 appeared with the returning Portsmouth – Wolverhampton adex so I took that and festered at Wolverhampton for the Brighton return, a required 85. What a day out, eight new locos for haulage and lots of fun.