Wednesbury (14/07/1989)
| Friday 14th July 1989 | |||||||||||||||
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| Train | Wednesbury | Loco | Comments | ||||||||||||
| 6T42 Bescot - Brierley Hill | 06.07 | 47354 | |||||||||||||
| 8T19 Bescot - Wednesbury | 06.41-06.45 | ||||||||||||||
| 6M40 Cardiff - Wednesbury | 06.54-07.03 | 37906 | The first appearance of a 37/9 during the week commencing 10th July. With only six locos in the subclass they were never likely to
be daily visitors on the Wednesbury trains, but they appeared often enough. We only have loco numbers for 6M40/6V43, and
not 6M12/6V69, so this list isn't complete. Nonetheless it gives a fair idea of how often they appeared in the Black Country. Here
are the July visits on 6M40...
The register shows the note "(30)" after the loco number. Once again I assume that's the number of wagons on the train. |
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| 0T90 Bescot - ? | 07.52 | 20228+20145 | It's not clear where the 20s were off to, as no destination is shown in the register. They didn't go far though, as they were back in 90 minutes. | ||||||||||||
| 0V43 Wednesbury - Margam | 08.11 | 37906 | It was unusual for V43 to run as a light engine, but of course it could have collected empties at Brierley Hill. | ||||||||||||
| 6M72 St Blazey - Cliffe Vale | 08.18 | 47249 | |||||||||||||
| 6M51 Scunthorpe - Brierley Hill | 08.31-08.45 | 37241 | Into the sidings at Wednesbury to detach traffic... | ||||||||||||
| 6M51 Scunthorpe - Brierley Hill | 09.08 | 37241 | ...and away to Brierley Hill. | ||||||||||||
| 4T52 Lawley St - Round Oak | 09.18 | 47451 | |||||||||||||
| 7T90 ? - Wednesbury | 09.26-09.30 | 20145+20228 | |||||||||||||
| 0T42 Brierley Hill - Bescot | 10.29 | 47354 | |||||||||||||
| 6E29 Brierley Hill - Scunthorpe | 10.51 | 37241 | 
Same loco, same train, different day. 6E29 didn't stop to attach empties on 14th July, but it did on Tuesday 21st February when
this picture was taken. On a glorious winter's day 37241 takes the Scunthorpe empties away from Wednesbury at 11.16. At this time
the loco was allocated to Thornaby depot, but still carried a Cockney sparrow logo indicating that it had previously been based
at Stratford. |
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| 9T90 Wednesbury - Bescot | 11.25 | 20145+20228 | I'm assuming this is spoil empties. It can only have gone to Bescot given that the locos returned 40 minutes later. | ||||||||||||
| 9T19 Wednesbury - Bescot | 11.27 | Engine and brakevan only. | |||||||||||||
| 0T90 Bescot - Wednesbury | 12.05-12.07 | 20228+20145 | |||||||||||||
| 9T90 Wednesbury - Bescot | 12.29 | 20145+20228 | This is smart work, departing again within 25 minutes of the locos arriving. | ||||||||||||
| 6T52 Round Oak - Bescot | 12.38 | 47451 | |||||||||||||
| 9T19 Bescot - Wednesbury | 12.39-12.42 | ||||||||||||||
| 0T42 Bescot - Brierley Hill | 13.11 | 47354 | |||||||||||||
| 0T52 Bescot - Round Oak | 14.08 | 47451 | |||||||||||||
| 8T19 Wednesbury - Bescot | 16.49 | ||||||||||||||
| 0T90 Bescot - Wednesbury | 17.14 | 20228+20145 | A third visit of the day for T90, once again arriving light to collect a train. This is exactly the sort of pattern you'd expect to see on a Friday with weekend engineering work looming. | ||||||||||||
| 6T42 Brierley Hill - Bescot | 17.23 | 47354 | |||||||||||||
| 6V70 Cliffe Vale - St Blazey | 17.30 | ||||||||||||||
| 8T90 Wednesbury - Bescot | 17.34 | 20145+20228 | Another speedy departure, just 20 minutes after the locos arrived. This one was definitely bound for Bescot as its recorded in the register. | ||||||||||||
| 6M12 Cardiff - Wednesbury | 18.16 | ||||||||||||||
| 0E96 Wolverhampton? - Wednesbury | 18.25 | This is an interesting working. 6E96 was the 20.39 Wolverhampton - Grimsby (Scunthorpe on Fridays), and wouldn't normally have been seen at Wednesbury. It was the return working of 6M71 11.36 Grimsby - Wolverhampton. Evidently on this occasion the return working was going to start at Wednesbury, which was a rare event in 1989. | |||||||||||||
| 6T52 Round Oak - Lawley St | 18.26 | 47451 | |||||||||||||
| 6E96 Wednesbury - Scunthorpe | 18.54 | The Scunthorpe is away after just 30 minutes. | |||||||||||||
| 6V69 Wednesbury - Cardiff | 19.08 | ||||||||||||||
| 6M17 Gloucester - Bescot | 19.29 | 37009 | |||||||||||||
| 6V80 Bescot - East Usk | 20.19 | 37355 | |||||||||||||
| 6M29 was a no-show on this day, the second time that one of the evening Speedlinks has failed to appear in the week under
review. As on the previous day Wednesbury closed before Great Bridge, with 7-5-5 sent at 20.35. At this time Great Bridge was once again
likely to be awaiting train-out-of-section from Kingswinford Jct for 6V80.
The box was open for 15½ hours and there were 32 movements. Once again an average of roughly two trains an hour. This looks like a reasonably typical Friday with most of the booked trains showing up, plus a healthy number of engineers trains. The additional E96 working has compensated for the missing 6M29. Of the 32 movements a slightly higher than normal 8 were light engines, the unbalanced engineers trips contributing to this. The longest gap between trains was the whopping 2 hours 40 minutes between 14.08 and 16.49. This was also the longest interval during the entire week. The timetable suggested that the quietest time of day should be mid-afternoon, but on this occasion the big interval is largely due to the afternoon T52 going south earlier than normal. |
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