North Wales Coast
August 2001 Part 2
Is it a drag or a push? 90006 "Modern Railways Magazine/Roger Ford" propels "dead" 87034 "William Shakespeare" and train South through Crewe 30/8/2001
47785 "Fiona Castle"
brought EWS liveried passenger haulage back to the North Wales
Coast line when it provided the power for the 9.19 Holyhead-Crewe.
30/8/2001
The train was pushed South by
hired-in Class 90 number 90146. 30/8/2001
47853 powered the 11.15 for Liverpool
ex-Poole. See below for this locomotive on the N.Wales Coast.
30/8/2001
142041 arrived from Chester with
a Manchester Airport train and is seen here on the crossover from
platform 6. 30/8/2001
66224 came round the back of the
station with a set of MGR(?) wagons. It stopped briefly and then
left in a hurry with sanders blasting along the track - very dramatic!
30/8/2001
There were plenty of HST sets
around and this shot shows 43067 leaving Crewe with 43180 attached
to the rear, destination unknown. On the right is 156420 working
the Chester-Crewe shuttle. 30/8/2001
At last! A Hippo in the form of
175111 on the 13.19 for Holyhead ex-Birmingham. 30/8/2001
Not the coast line but the Chester
services. Hale station in Cheshire, and the scene of my early
travels to school when I commuted between Hale and Knutsford every
day, often behind an ex GCR D11 4-4-0! Much different today with
open barriers and weeds. 142009 arrived on a Manchester Piccadilly
service. 28/8/2001
150140 also arrived en route for
Chester.....
......and didn't hang around.
28/8/2001
Some of the passengers waiting
to gain access to 175010 as it joins up to 175105 at Crewe to
form the 15.27 for Holyhead. All sorts of things went wrong after
that. Other pictures etc can be seen on Charlie Hulme's North
Wales Coast site. 24/8/2001
47749 "Atlantic College"
was at the head of a Serco test train waiting in the platform
12 loop. At the rear was 47737 "Resurgent". 24/8/2001
175105 still waits to leave as
47737 stands at the rear of the Serco train. 24/8/2001
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