Bashing the Skegs 😎:) 20190 + 20159 seen at Skegness at the head of our train home to Derby - 1M06 1915 Skegness - Derby Relief
<b>Choppers to Skeggy 😎:)</b>
Between 1982 and 1984 I spent many happy hours with my friends chasing around the North of England after the remaining Class 40s. In between times, we did of course go bashing other quality classes, and the pairs of Class 20s that used to be employed on Summer Saturday workings from the Midlands to Skegness were always a riot! 

As seen here, there were often three separate workings from Leicester, Derby and Nottingham, making it quite a game to try and scratch all three pairs on the day :) Also in view, one of the local Lincoln based Class 114 Derby 'Heavyweight' DMUs.

<u><b>'A day in the life' - log book update:</b></u> 
<u>Sunday 31st July 1983</u> - three pairs of Class 20s were enjoyed on trains between derby, Nottingham and Skegness :)

<b>The Pairs</b>
20160 + 20180 - we had from Nottingham - Boston for
20163 + 20172 - from Boston - Skegness <b>+ cab ride in 20172 on the shunt-release!</b> for
<b>20159 + 20190 - our train back to Derby - seen on the left</b>

My interest in the railways waned permanently with the demise of the Class 50s, initially from the Paddington-Oxford route in 1990, and finally when they retired from the Waterloo-Exeter services in 1992.

As well as enjoying the thrash, I managed to record many of the trips and railway scenes encountered on film for posterity. Those days are now long gone, but happily the photos remain for me to reminisce over and share. ;)

<b>Photos that were nearly lost to oblivion!</b>
The original slide was rescued from a box of 'duds' that I could never quite bring myself to throw away - now I am glad that I kept them ;)

Taken with a Zenith TTL SLR camera and standard lens. <b>Scanned from the original slide with no digital restoration</b>

You can see a random selection of my railway photos here on Flickriver: <a href="http://www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/" rel="noreferrer nofollow">www.flickriver.com/photos/themightyhood/random/</a>
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