Ive never written about my Outings for quite a long time, Ive decided to start it again because I enjoy reading everyone's outings.
Yesterday involved a early start ( For a Saturday! ) of 8:00 to catch the 8:40 VTEC Service to Edinburgh, Which I failed miserably at catching.
I managed to leave the house at 8:50, Some 50 Mins late accompanied by my Nana who hasn't been on a outing in ages with me.
We made the short walk from my house to Brockely Whins Metro Station and I was admiring the pleasant weather that was on offer today and in short time we made it to Brockely Whins.
We had just missed one so a 12 Minute wait prevailed, Which passed over quickly after a quick chat with my Nana.
Our first journey formed of Metrocar 4029 on if I can remember properly was train 109.
J1 Brockely Whins Metro Station - Gateshead Interchange Metrocar 4029?Train 109
We boarded and as usual no seats were available and only the Disabled bay was available, A handful of seats became available after Heworth though I remained standing for the rest of the journey.
NSAs weren't working on this Metrocar which is on the increase, Only had 2 Metrocars that had them working this week!
Also 2 Nexus Surveyors were onboard and asked me and other customers about where there going and other things involving transport, She advised me to get off at Monument but I got off at Gateshead and got the Q1 to save my Nana walking.
We alighted at Gateshead, Oblivious to the fact DanPicken and Lee had just boarded the Metro I had just got off DanPicken has noted about the encounter in " Stalking and Such "
A short hop to the Q1 Stand took 2 Minutes and at the top of the escalators was stood Streetdeck 6301 on the X21 which reminded me of the night befores nightmare Outing on Sister 6307 -
Where I got the most blurry photograph of it ever imaginable.
Anyways back to today we found ourselves with a mere 2Min Wait for the Q1, Which was formed of 8334 which I needed for haulage.
J2 Gateshead Interchange - Newcastle Central Station GNE 8334 Optare Versa
Only 2 passengers were onboard with another one boarding on the Quayside, The driver was early and as such was only gliding at 15Mph around the whole route which still didn't take long.
We got held up outside Central Station in the usual gridlock that's around there and the journey was over.
A quick change of 10Mins for our ( Now 9:40 service ) to Edinburgh was done with 5 mins to spare and in came Durham Cathedral branded 91114 on Platform 2 of a very busy Central Station
J3 Newcastle Central Station - Edinburgh Waverley 91114 1S04
We grabbed the priority seats and watched Newcastle disappear from sight and into Northumberland, The scenery gets better once past Alnmouth and is always a great journey every time use it.
91114 is a unique Class 91, with a special Brecknall Willis Pantograph which faces forward instead of backwards on other 91s.
Once past Berwick-Upon-Tweed the line speed drops to 90-100Mph till Edinburgh and involves tight curves through hand dug cuttings and near cliff edges
We passed Dunbar and the Drunk Ladies infront of us started getting louder and more drunk we wernt surprised when theysaid to eachother " Lets go to the bar " when we arrived at Waverley.
We arrived in Edinburgh on Platform 8 and we went straight for our Dinner.
We had Dinner at M&S café, Where I had a grilled Halloumi Bun and my Nana had typical Bacon sandwich
I took photos around Princes Street and the surrounding areas with some photos on my Flickr now, I was there for a hour and a half.
After this we got day tickets and used various services, The traction was a Volvo7900, Euro 3 Voith Volvo B7RLE, Euro 4 Voith Volvo B7RLE , Voith Volvo B9TL and a Dennis Trident ( Long Wheel Base )
on services 30, 38 , 2 , 22 and 19 respectively.
we came back home in my dads car after his conference in Edinburgh and arrived home for 20:00
Hope you enjoyed my outing and will post my next outing next week : )
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