North Wales Coast
March 2001 Part 2
47827 entering Crewe's platform
11 with the 9.19 Holyhead - Crewe. 29/3/2001
Approaching the rear of the train
from the Chester line was class 90 number 90032 "Cerestar"
in deteriorating "Railfreight" livery. 29/3/2001
Hooking onto the rear to propel
the train to London. The rear vehicle was an additional buffet
car number 10250 marked "out of use". 29/3/2001
47817 "The Institution
of Mechanical Engineers" brought the 9.19 Holyhead-London
into platform 11 at Crewe for its loco swap. This was the start
of a very busy 60 minutes at Crewe today. 23/3/2001
Waiting along the WCML was 86229
"Lions Clubs International" which reversed onto
the train in readiness for its journey to the capital. The loco
normally waits in the siding over Mill Street road bridge but
for some reason inhabited the WCML alongside the Heritage Centre.
23/3/2001
Railfreight's 66509 ran South
down the centre road with a train of car flats (or whatever they
are called these days!). 23/3/2001
Much to my surprise, the HST that
arrived in platform 6 was the 8.38 London-Holyhead running 45
minutes down. 43156 was at the head with 43090 trailing. The top
photo shows the train leaving Crewe past the Heritage Centre.
Crewe town centre clock tower can be seen in the distance. 23/3/2001
47806 arrived with the Poole-Liverpool
train (the driver always gets a treat when he arrives at Crewe
with this train! Shhhh). Just as this train was pulling out a
class 37 went North onto the Manchester line with 4 ancient looking
coaches, 2 were in RR livery and 2 in IC (ish). It turned out
to be Mr.Riley's loco 37038 - always the way huh! 23/3/2001
The Virgin 9.19 Holyhead-London
train arrived at Crewe's platform 11 behind 47844. 20/3/2001
The shunter was waiting to unhook
the class 47 from DVT 82135 "Spirit of Cumbria"
which would become the leading vehicle en route to London Euston.
20/3/2001
The motive power was provided
by Class 90 number 90005 "Financial Times" which
was attached to the rear of the train. 20/3/2001
As usual the class 47 ran round
the train and crossed over to park up in bay platform 10, 90005
is on the right waiting to leave. Today the 47 was switched off
instead of being left to tick over - less polution that way! 20/3/2001
Later on, 47812 arrived at platform
6 with the Poole - Liverpool train. 20/3/2001
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