Network SouthEast-liveries 47573 'The London Standard' passes Dowley Gap with 1E11 1242 Carlisle - Leeds. The now-demolished Headquarters of the Bradford & Bingley Building Society can be seen in the background (01/06/1988)
Petroleum Sector 47190 waits to depart from Manchester Piccadilly with the SuO 1A49 1825 to London Euston. The train was booked for diesel haulage as far as Stockport, and this particular diagram frequently produced a 'no-heat' machine (31/07/1988)
47335 calls at Sheffield with 1Z50 0925 Liverpool - Nottingham relief (06/08/1988)
47229 waits to depart from Bolton with 2P57 1930 Manchester Victoria - Blackpool North (06/08/1988)
47339 calls at Bolton with 2J58 1558 Blackpool North - Manchester Victoria (12/08/1988)
47051 waits to depart from Manchester Victoria later that evening with 2P57 1930 to Blackpool North. Remarkably this had been my second 'new' loco of the day on its inbound working having earlier scored 47339 (12/08/1988)
Having run round its train in the loop at Gannow Junction, 47522 'Doncaster Enterprise' draws the empty stock into Rose Grove station before departing for Preston with the Summer Saturday 1V39 0632 to Paignton (13/08/1988)
47352 waits to depart from Carlisle with the SuO 1E13 1700 to Leeds (14/08/1988)
47213 departs from Blair Atholl with 1H11 1135 Edinburgh - Inverness (15/08/1988)
47518 arrives at Blair Atholl with 1T30 1230 Inverness - Glasgow Queen Street (15/08/1988)
47016 'The Toleman Group' waits to depart from Edinburgh Waverley with 1M47 1744 to Birmingham New Street, which it worked as far as Carstairs (15/08/1988)
47016 is pictured again on arrival at Carstairs with 1M47 (15/08/1988)
47236 calls at Settle with 1M72 1633 Leeds - Carlisle (20/08/1988)
47465 waits time at Dumfries with 1M03 1313 Glasgow Central - Carlisle (13/09/1988)
47525 is pictured on arrival at Stranraer Harbour with 1S74 1035 ex-London Euston (13/09/1988)
47608 waits to depart from Stranraer Harbour with 1A06 1835 to Glasgow Central (13/09/1988)
With the town in the background, 47525 shunts the empty stock off 1S74 1035 ex-Euston into the middle road at Stranraer Harbour (13/09/1988)
The end of the line: 47525 looks out across Loch Ryan after stabling its stock for the night at Stranraer (13/09/1988)
It's not quite as sharp as I'd have liked but this early-morning shot of 47017 shows the no-heat machine waiting to depart from Dundee with 1J16 0655 to Edinburgh Waverley (14/09/1988)
47467 is pictured at Inverness with 1A52 1330 to Aberdeen (14/09/1988)
47604 'Women's Royal Voluntary Service' calls at Keith with 1H31 1325 Aberdeen - Inverness (14/09/1988)
47515 'Night Mail' and 47642 'Strathisla' are pictured outside Inverness TMD (18/09/1988)
37114 'Dunrobin Castle' outside the shed at Inverness alongside 47515 and 47642 (18/09/1988)
A classic line-up at Inverness but one which would soon begin to disappear with the onset of 'Sprinterisation' features 47636 on 1B36 1815 to Edinburgh, 47578 on 1A58 1800 to Aberdeen and 37416 on 2H85 1755 to Kyle (19/09/1988)