Was looking through some old Diaries I found in the attic ( Its more like an Alladins Cave haha !! )
On this day in 1998 I worked a National Power Loaded coal train from Mossend via Shotts and through Edinburgh Waverley down the ECML and got relieved at Ferrybridge. I had worked up the previous day non stop from Milford to Mossend ( I don`t think you would want to hear about the bladder emptying arrangements !! )
We used the JHA Nat Power set normally used on the Limestone train from Buxton to Drax.
The reason was that the JHA could not pysically be overloaded with coal and also we could run loaded at 75mph ( A first in the UK for a loaded Coal Train ). Only in England and not Scotland due to some wierd Railtrack Scotland thing which meant we had to run as a Class 6 up to the English Border and then Class 4 in England. I think the headcodes were 6Z59 and 4Z59.
Even with the Great Class 59/2 we didn`t really hit 75 that much to be fair.
Probably a very boring post but may interest the odd one.
Chris
