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    Jun 08, 2021 5 minutes

    In his latest column, Don Benn covers a trip behind B1 No. 61306 Mayflower in 2015, two runs north of Crewe on the same summer Saturday in 1967, one with No. 70010 Owen Glendower and the other with ‘Black Five’ No. 44711, and ends with details of a fine run on the ‘Nord Pfiel’ express across Schleswig-Holstein to Hamburg in 1971 behind oil fired Pacific No. 012 104.

    IneverhadarunbehindaB1Class 4-6-0 in thedays ofBRsteamanddespiteDavidBuck’sB1No.61306 Mayflower beinginmainlineservicesince2014, I still haven’thadadiesel free run with it.No. 61306wasbuilt byTheNorthBritish LocomotiveCompanytoanLNER designbut deliveredafterNationalisation in April 1948 toHull Dairycoatesandit stayedthereor atHullBotanic Gardensuntil itmovedtoLowMoor in 1967, fromwhere itwaswithdrawninSeptemberof thatyear.Thanks to a log receivedfrommycolleagueAlanRawlingsIcanset out details ofafine runaway fromitshometerritory in tableone.

    Theoccasionwas the SteamDreamstrip fromLondon Victoria toBathandBristolonSaturday, June4, 2015. Thetrainhadbeenbankedout of Platform2atVictoria byClass 37 dieselNo.37706andranmoreor less to time until overstaying its waterstopatNewburyRacecourse, leaving there13minutes late.That’sall the incentiveBill Warrinerneededto setout to recover time, aided by Craig Stinchcombeonthe shovel.

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