Part 1 (January-April)

47512 powers away from Darlington with 1E51 0719 Liverpool-Newcastle. I'd given myself a rare day off on New Year's Day, but this was already my third 'Brush' of 1991 having kicked off the year earlier that morning with '418 out of Bradford Forster Square (02/01/1991)

47443 'North Eastern' rests on arrival at Newcastle with 1E57 0925 ex-Liverpool. In less than three weeks' time, familar sights such as this would be consigned to history as the loco-hauled 'Trans Pennine' turns were replaced by new-build '158s' (02/01/1991)

47512 pauses beneath the famous roof in Platform 5 at York station with 1M94 0816 Newcastle-Liverpool (03/01/1991)

A few minutes later 47512 is pictured again making a spirited departure from York. In the background is the stock for 1M21 1020 York-Birmingham, which was today unusually in the hands of 47586 from the ICDA pool and hence the reason why I wasn't on board 1M94 (03/01/1991)

47704 'Dunedin' shunts empty vans in the PCD at Leeds. Although it was now a Crewe-based Parcels sector machine (and was perfoming its normal duties), the former 'shove' looks decidedly out of place (04/01/1991)

Another former Scottish region machine - 47597 - storms away from Huddersfield with 1M94 0816 Newcastle-Liverpool (04/01/1991)

Continuing the theme, next up was 47642 'Strathisla' departing Huddersfield with 1M34 1015 Newcastle-Liverpool (04/01/1991)

47512 waits time at Leeds with 1M80 1822 Newcastle-Liverpool (04/01/1991)

47635 'Jimmy Milne' calls at Darlington with 1E51 0719 Newcastle-Liverpool (05/01/1991)

Deputising for an unavailable Inter City '47/8', 47706 departs Leeds with 1V54 1144 York-Swansea. As with sister '704 in an earlier picture, the former 'Strathclyde' was also now a Crewe-based 'RXLC' machine (05/01/1991)

47573 'The London Standard' waits to depart from Liverpool Lime Street with 1V78 0914 to Cardiff Central. The original Network SouthEast livery hides the fact that this particular loco was a Tinsley-based freight sector machine at the time, so this was a notable working (19/01/1991)

I shouldn't laugh because we've all had our fair share of misfortune, but looking back at this particular moment always raises a smile because this was the last day of the sole-surviving loco-hauled turn on the 'Marches' before it reverted to a DMU, and the train was actually booked for a '37/4'. Oops... (19/01/1991)

Of course this was also the last weekend of loco-hauled trains on the 'Trans Pennine' route. 47488 'RailRiders' waits to depart from Liverpool Lime Street with 1E57 0925 to Newcastle under the watchful eye of the Law (19/01/1991)

47488 attracts the crowds as it departs from Manchester Piccadilly and hour later with 1E57 (19/01/1991)

It's that 'Wandering Dog' again... 47597 is pictured on the blocks at Liverpool Lime Street after arriving with 1M15 0730 ex-Newcastle (19/01/1991)

47642 'Strathisla' is coupled up to the stock before working 1E63 1125 Liverpool-Newcastle (19/01/1991)

47492 'The Enterprising Scot' waits to depart from Manchester Victoria with 2C41 1248 to Barrow-in-Furness. The MEN Arena now occupies this location after Victoria station was 'downsized' in the mid-1990s (19/01/1991)

As with the 'Marches' and 'Pennines', this weekend also saw the end of loco-hauled 'Regional Railways' trains to and from Barrow-in-Furness. 47492 is pictured again having reached the end of its journey from Manchester with 2C41 (19/01/1991)

Having run round, 47492 catches a brief patch of winter sunlight as it waits to head back from Barrow with 2J90 1542 to Manchester Victoria (19/01/1991)

Rightly or wrongly I've always thought of Barrow as a rather bleak location, and this scene perhaps illustrates why. 47492 heads 2J90 1542 to Manchester Victoria on the last day of loco-hauled operations in the Furness line (19/01/1991)

Sprting AZ's 'Cumbian Sulzer Farewell' headboard, 47635 waits to depart from Barrow later that evening with 2N42 1959 to Preston (19/01/1991)

A slightly sharper image of 'Jimmy Milne' as it waits to depart with the final loco-hauled passenger train out of Barrow. Well, at least until the Summer of 1992, but we didn't know that at the time...(19/01/1991)

47635 'Jimmy Milne' stands at Preston after working the final loco-hauled passenger train on the Furness line, 2N42 1959 from Barrow. The train then went forward an hour or so later as 2F33 2255 Preston to Liverpool Lime Street (19/01/1991)

Rather than get mixed up in the circus that was the last day of loco-haulage on the 'Pennines' I'd spent Sunday morning on the 'drags'. Already allocated the 'RXLC' sector, former 'Trans Pennine' favourite 47488 'RailRiders' is pictured on arrival at Crewe after hauling 1A07 0858 Liverpool-Euston over the non-electrified route via Warrington Central and Manchester (20/01/1991)