RUGBY-CREWE: ? EUSTON-HOLYHEAD:           
                                                   
     Engine: Class 47 no 47490                          
     Load: 10 coaches, 336 tons tare, 345 tons full
           plus dead electric loco no 86430                   
                                                        
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     miles                              m/sec    mi/hr    
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                                                (Avge)
      0.00  NUNEATON                     0:00    
                                         RL/ML   easy
      2.39  mp 99.5 (Hartshill)          4:53               
      5.18  Atherstone                   7:18    69.3        
      9.38  Polesworth                  10:24    81.3           
     12.91  TAMWORTH                    12:44    90.8           
     16.39  mp 113.5 (Hademore)         15:03    90.1           
     19.13  LICHFIELD                   16:53    89.7           
     27.16  RUGELEY                     22:24    87.3           
     30.02  Colwich SB                  24:19    89.5           
     47.00  mp 129.5 (Milford)          26:11    76.2           
     36.43  STAFFORD                    31:29               
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     Date: Saturday 1st December 1990:                             
                                                                    
     dep: Nuneaton 11.07am                              
     arr: Stafford 11.38am

     47490 came off at Stafford and 86430 resumed.
     Overhead wire damage at Colwich.                        
                                                                    
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