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CREWE - CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD OCTOBER 2001 - PART TWO |
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CREWE - CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD OCTOBER 2001 - PART TWO |
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Today was the day of the green machine with "Freightliner" Class 66 locomotives seemingly appearing everywhere.
Top - 66502 "Basford Hall Centenary 2001"
Centre - 66516 ran from bay 8 onto the LNWR depot.
Bottom - 66520 entered platform 12 with an empty car carrier
train. The loco was preparing to run round when I left. 29/10/2001
The sight of a dead
class 37 in "Transrail" livery and newly painted yellow
end, being towed into the diesel depot yard brought to mind that
37402 was due out today. A quick gallop(!) down the platform revealed
37896 with 37712 in charge being moved around the yard. Ah well!
maybe tomorrow. Referral to the Class
37 Loco Group site reveals that 896 is a veteran of the French
campaign and is actually resurrected from the dead. 29/10/2001
The 9.19 Holyhead-London arrived
about 10 minutes late behind double heading class 47's, 47734
"Crewe Diesel Depot, Quality Approved"
and 47806. The reason is unknown. The train eventually left about
20 minutes down with 90011 "West Coast Rail 250"
attached to the rear. 29/10/2001.
Middlewich diversions
day and "Hippo" 175106 crawls past Heys Chemicals as
the 15.50 fro Llandudno Junction. This train should have appeared
after the 13.07 Virgin train from Holyhead but there were no 47's
of HST's to be seen. 28/10/2001
106 disappeared into the distance
at a snails pace, having received a yellow at the last moment.
28/10/2001
A yellow light announced
the arrival of "shed" 66110 on a ballast maintenance
train.
The apparent speed restrictions
on the line enable several shots to be taken as the locomotive
crawls past. 28/10/2001
47814 arrived from
Holyhead with the 9.19 Holyhead - London 24/10/2001
Soon afterwards 47798 "Prince
William" arrived with a Northern Belle charter. 24/10/2001
The locomotive posed
for a while in platform 12. 24/10/2001
87020 "North Briton"
was waiting to take over the Holyhead - London train and attached
to the rear as usual. However, the DVT was faulty and the AC electric
had to unhook and run round to attach to the front. 24/10/2001
In bay platform 8,
37038 was ticking over. 24/10/2001
It later left in a hurry with
much clag. 24/10/2001
I had earlier seen
a class 37 towing a class 47 and another 37 down the WCML. Annoyingly
it dived down into the "muckhole". Eventually the trio
surfaced in the form of 37057 "Viking"......
...which was caught by the sun
reflecting off a parked car. 24/10/2001
The class 47 was 47784
"Condover Hall" and the other 37 was 37682
"Hartlepool Pipe Mill". Quite a time for
37's. 24/10/2001
But there were more, 37712 (also
above through the LNWR screens) was dead on the diesel depot yard
while at the rear of the shed 37707 was shunting class 47 corpses.
24/10/2001
Eventually 37712 was
started up, later to chase off up the West Coast Main Line. 24/10/2001
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