West Midlands ADEX's 1984 - part 2

"Timewarp : now under heavy general overhaul - expect a new livery and shiny new nameplates soon!"

Awaydays, Merrymakers or plain old Advertised Excursions, whatever they were marketed as in your area, the once commonplace ADEX is just another aspect of the railway scene that is long gone... to read more (see part 1).

This page was previously part of our old site 1980's Timewarp, with many thanks to Gary Stratford.

Can you add to the listing below? Do you know what worked any of these trains or can you confirm if they even ran? Did you travel on any of the services listed and do you have any railway related memories of the trip? Please post in the box below.

Info in the table below in BOLD was added or amended at the last page update.
ADEX's originating in the West Midlands 1984 - part 2 - June-July others to follow.

Wed
06/06/1984
1Z25
0735 Wolverhampton - Weston-super-Mare

47140 Return at least

Sun
10/06/1984
1Z40
0900 Wolverhampton - Weymouth

47016 Outward & rtn

Wed
13/06/1984
1Z10
0733 Leamington Spa - Scarborough

47563 Outwards at least

Thurs
21/06/1984
1Z36
0918 Wolverhampton - Ascot

Sun
24/06/1984
1T06
0830 Leamington Spa - Rhyl (1750 return)

Mon
25/06/1984
1Z25
0729 Coventry - Paignton

45141 Return at least

Wed
27/06/1984
1Z11
0800 Shrewsbury - Skegness

47103 Outward & rtn (which was reported passing Nottingham 2023)




*** (Sat 30/06/84 - Fri 06/07/84 No STNs on file) ***

Wed
04/07/1984
1T08
0719 Banbury - Llandudno

40079 Outward & Rtn.

Mon
09/07/1984
1Z16
0719 Shrewsbury - Paignton

Tues
10/07/1984
1T06
0833 Banbury - Morecambe (1715 return)

formed DMU (D2) viewed outward Birmingham New Street

Thurs
12/07/1984
1Z26
0735 Kidderminster - Portsmouth Harbour

Sun
15/07/1984
1Z37
0805 Wolverhampton - York

Sun
15/07/1984
1T06
0825 Rugby - Llandudno (1810 return)

47324 outward & rtn.

Mon
16/07/1984
1Z09
0704 Leamington Spa - Scarborough

Tues
17/07/1984
1T07
0806 Coventry - Blackpool North (1805 return)

Wed
18/07/1984
1Z09
0718 Banbury - Saltburn

47155 Outward & rtn

Thurs
19/07/1984
1Z25
0728 Coventry - Weymouth




*** (Sat 21/07/84 - Fri 27/07/84 No STNs on file) ***

Sun
22/07/1984
1T05
0900 Leamington Spa - Rhyl

Outward Via Coventry & Nuneaton 47522

Note 12. Via Coventry & Nuneaton outward at least.
Sun
22/07/1984
1Z27
0730 Shrewsbury - Margate

Outward 47340

Sun
29/07/1984
1Z37
0840 Shrewsbury - Scarborough

Sun
29/07/1984
1T06
0830 Leamington Spa - Llandudno (1800 return)

Mon
30/07/1984
1Z16
0743 Stratford-upon-Avon - Paignton

outward 47016

Tues
31/07/1984
1Z27
???? Redditch - Cleethorpes

Tues
31/07/1984
1T05
0800 Banbury - Llandudno (1735 return)

West Midlands ADEX's for August 1984 onwards to follow,,,

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West Midlands ADEX's 1984 - part 1.

"Timewarp : now under heavy general overhaul - expect a new livery and shiny new nameplates soon!"

Awaydays, Merrymakers or plain old Advertised Excursions, whatever they were marketed as in your area, the once commonplace ADEX is just another aspect of the railway scene that is long gone, once and for all, consigned for to the history books, or maybe to just to websites like this?

Gary Stratford as once again been perusing the 1984 Special Traffic Notices (STN) of the LMR this time in search of the Excursion traffic originating in the West Midlands and this page now lists his findings together with 'gen' with regard what locos actually worked from Gary's notes and from Timewarp records.

Gary says… "Concentrating on those workings starting in the West Midlands area and not (at the moment!) including those from other regions passing through so as a result most of the starting times are known. However, the notices can be a bit vague - for instance there are only outward timings for the Banbury - Scarborough on 06/09/84 in the W1 and nothing at all in the M so I don't know what time that started from Banbury if it indeed ran!

These loco hauled trains seemed to run on any day from Sunday to Thursday during the peak summer months and dropped off towards the end of the summer as you would expect. There were some Adex workings on summer Saturdays but these were all quoted as DMU from what I could see so are not listed. "

Can you add to the listing below? Do you know what worked any of these trains or can you confirm if they even ran? Did you travel on any of the services listed and do you have any railway related memories of the trip?

Info on this page originally part of a feature on our old Timewarp site with amendments and updates.

ADEX's orignating in the West Midlands - May 1984 (other months to follow).

Mon
07/05/1984
1T08
0800 Stratford-upon-Avon - Aberystwyth

Outward 45117 to Wolves; 25265/25283 forward /
Rtn was 1T08/1755  25265/25283 to Wolves 37173 fwd.

Mon
07/05/1984
1Z37
0815 Wolverhampton - Ramsgate

Outward 47434 & 1740 rtn

Sun
27/05/1984
1Z38
0730 Coventry - Paignton

Sun
27/05/1984
1Z39
0916 Wolverhampton - Portsmouth Harbour

Mon
28/05/1984
1Z36
0733 Kidderminster - Brighton

47549 Outward & rtn

Mon
28/05/1984
1Z11
0710 Shrewsbury - Scarborough

45110 Outward at least

Tues
29/05/1984
1Z26
0705 Lichfield City - Plymouth

Wed
30/05/1984
1Z25
0700 Banbury - Kings Lynn

Thurs
31/05/1984
1T07
0740 Leamington Spa - Blackpool North (1800 return)

West Midlands ADEX's for June 1984 onwards to follow,,,



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