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CLASS 20
PATHFINDER Tours’ ‘Jolly Fisherman’ special on bank holiday Monday, May 27, saw a pair of Type 1s head off to the Lincolnshire coast as they did so many times in years gone by. Running as the 1Z31/10.36 Chaddesden-Skegness, the tour was hauled by blue-liveried Nos. 20096+20107, the pair having taken over from a GBRf Class 66 (see also page 78).
A similar combination of motive power covered all the movements of London Underground stock during May, with Nos. 20901+20905 and 66767 handling all duties prior to May 23 when the latter was replaced by classmate No. 66787. The only noticeable change to these workings has been the use of Polybulk wagons rather than tanks between locomotives and coaches, the former being collected from Hexthorpe on May 7.
Nos. 20189 and 20205 (MOLO pool) took a pair of snowploughs from Derby RTC to Stoke-on-Trent and back again on May 28.
CLASS 33
FOLLOWING its railtour use on Merseyside in March, No. 33012 spent several weeks at Carnforth before heading south to London at the end of April. Its homeward journey to Swanage was completed on May 9 when the ‘Crompton’ ran light from Southall.
West Coast’s No. 33207 accompanied Stanier ‘Black 5’ No. 44871 on the 5Z63/07.20 Southall-London Victoria empty stock move on May 23, prior to the steam locomotive taking out a charter to Worcester Shrub Hill. Three days later, the Class 33/2 was seen at Gospel Oak bound for King’s Cross ready to work another empty stock duty as the 5Z44/22.43 King’s Cross-Southall along with the trailing No. 47802.
CLASS 37
GREATER Anglia operated the ‘EACH’ charity charter on May 18 with funds destined for the East Anglia Children’s Hospice. ‘Top and tailed’ by English Electric Type 3s Nos. 37405 and 37409, the train initially left Norwich for Ely before heading to King’s Lynn from whence it formed the
