Inter regional loco hauled services from Brighton 1990.

The Sussex Scot is now back in the historic departure time from Brighton at 0920 but only ran to Glasgow Central the portion working to and from Edinburgh had now been dropped. The afternoon train to Manchester now ran via Stoke rather than Crewe. The train to Kent now ran to and from Liverpool Lime Street. Whilst the southbound service was at a much better time the return service was quite late.

Summer Saturdays saw the Brighton services running to and from Eastbourne again, with the Manchester service continuing to be the only service of the week that ran via the WCML, involving a loco change at Willesden/ Mitre Bridge.

The summer Saturday service to Kent saw the southbound train start very early from Liverpool and in Kent ran outwards via Chatham and Canterbury East and returned, after a 10 minute layover at Folkestone Central, via Ashford and Tonbridge.

The Brighton to Glasgow train on Sundays continued to run via Evesham and Worcester. The southbound working ran via the GSWR route through Dumfries.

The Wolverhampton to Brighton service and vice versa now ran to and from Derby. The trawl through the working timetables also picked up the fact that the Derby to Brighton train on Sundays also ran via Worcester and Evesham.

As an aside there were in addition to the cross country services just five services each way in the morning between Clapham Junction and Kensington Olympia with six in the afternoon and no Sunday service.

The 1990 timetable was extended by two months to allow for the completion of the ECML electrification scheme which had a big knock on for Cross Country services.

Class 47/8 operation continued on services south of New Street with AC electric haulage north of. The only exception to this was the train routed via the WCML which changed traction at Mitre Bridge / West London Junction.

An acquired Working Timetable shows timing loads are D210/E210 so by this date the light 7 car formations are in use, formed BSO, TSO, TSO, TSO, TSO, TSO, RLF.

PHOTOS:

	47846 heads through Sonning cutting with 1O66 the 0718 Manchester Piccadilly to Brighton. Photo taken 3rd July 1990. Photographer Bob Foster. Used with permission.
	With a nice plume of black exhaust 47836 gets away from Reading with 1M50 the 1420 Brighton to Manchester Piccadilly. Photo taken July 1990. Photographer unknown / Authors collection.
	Carriage label for the 0918 Brighton to Glasgow Central. The Sussex Scot.
	Carriage label for the 0725 Saturday only dated Manchester to Eastbourne service.
	Carriage label for the 1133 Saturday only dated Edinburgh to Eastbourne service.
	Carriage label for the 1117 SUN only Derby to Brighton.
	Carriage label for the 1128 M-S Glasgow Central to Brighton.
	Carriage label for the 1220 SUN only Glasgow Central to Brighton.
	Carriage label for the 1831 SUN only Gatwick to Derby.
	47830 stands at Reading working 1M31 the 1716 Folkestone Central to Manchester Piccadilly. Photo taken 18th June 1991. Photographer Graham Walker. Used with permission.