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CLASS 20

Following their use on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, each locomotive handling trips to Whitby, Nos. 20142+20189 took charge of five MRA wagons forming the 6Z71 13.00 Doncaster Decoy-Derby RTC on September 28. Next day at either end of a KFA flat wagon that required turning, the pair powered the 4Z34 12.35 from Derby RTC out and back via Humberstone Road and Trent Junction. No. 20142 subsequently returned to the NYMR in the middle of October and handled Whitby trains regularly. Having been at York NRM since taking Pacific No. 60163 Tornado from Grosmont on September 27, ‘Type 1s’ Nos. 20007+20205 ran light to Derby RTC on October 9 (Aldwarke Junction at 14.15). Five days later the pair moved classmate No. 20189 from Derby to Tyseley, while Nos. 20007+20205 were next reported passing Mexborough on October 20 bound for Immingham West Reception. Two days later the ‘Type 1s’ hauled the 4Z13 10.17 Immingham-Doncaster iPort Victa Rail containers (see Wagons, p.37) and the locomotives left for Derby RTC next morning.

CLASS 33

West Coast Railways’ pairing of Nos. 33207+37706 set sail from Cornwall on October 1 with the 1Z47 08.35 Penzance-Plymouth at the end of Steam Dream’s four-day tour. At Plymouth steam locomotives Nos. 45596 and 61306 hauled the train to London Victoria, followed by the two diesels, prior to them taking the empty coaches and steam engines back to Southall depot that evening. Another ‘Crompton’, No. 33029, was out on October 5 accompanying EE ‘Type 3’ No. 37676 (out of action for several months) on a test run from Carnforth via Hellifield.

CLASS 37

The Rail Operations Group’s No. 37510 hauled a set of TransPennine Express coaches (TP8) from Manchester International Depot to Scarborough on October 7, returning with set TP1. The ‘Type 3’ had No. 37611 for support when moving EMU No. 710256 from Old Dalby to Willesden on October 11 and the same locomotives transferred a two-car West Midlands Railway Class 196 DMU two days later on the 5Q66 12.14 Donnington-Tyseley. By