North Wales Coast
September 2001 Part 3
Colwyn Bay in bright sunshine
and a blue Irish Sea make a wonderful backdrop for the class 47
hauled, 13.35 Holyhead-London. The two shots were taken from Penmaenhead
in as near perfect conditions as you can get. The locomotive was
47790 "Dewi Sant/Saint David". 29/9/2001
A brief visit to Crewe revealed
66053 arriving from the Basford "virtual quarry" with
a ballast train before running round to take its load South. 28/9/2001
A 60 minute stint
in Crewe's Spring sunshine first revealed 66510 parked in bay
platform 8. The sun was nice and warm but produced impossible
contrasts. 26/9/2001
In the Autumn
mist on the Diesel Depot yard was 37520. 26/9/2001
1A46, the 9.19
Holyhead-London arrived behind 47854 "Women's Royal
Voluntary Service". 26/9/2001
The class 47 was
detached and replaced at the rear by 90002 "Mission
Impossible". 47854 then ran round and parked in bay
platform 10. 26/9/2001
The Sandbach salt
traffic appears to be a thing of the past now but the acid tanks
continue. 37684 "Peak National Park" ran
through the centre road and left towards Basford Sidings. 26/9/2001
The 3(!) tanks
were left behind and the locomotive returned North up the West
Coast Main Line. The machine stormed through the centre road en
route. 26/9/2001
I regularly watched
the Chester-Manchester Airport trains manoeuvre round the faulty
platform 6 trackwork but, today, there was something different.
The 12.00 from Chester in the guise of 142042 was diverted into
platform 11 which left to run North onto the WCML.. 26/9/2001
The Pacer, in
"Merseyrail" livery, returned into platform 5 where
it again reversed to leave and gain the Manchester line. 26/9/2001
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