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CREWE - CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD JANUARY 2002 - PART ONE |
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CREWE - CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD JANUARY 2002 - PART ONE |
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47772 makes a
smoky start from Crewe with the 07.20hrs London-Holyhead. 19/01/2002
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This, believe
it or not, is a colour shot. It demonstrates the difference the
sun can make to photography, here bleaching out the train colour
from 60023. 19/01/2002
The 9.19 Holyhead-London
arrived behind 47805 which handed over to AC traction and ran
North up the WCML. 19/01/2002
09022 was sat
ticking over in the Diesel Depot yard with 60041 in tow. 19/01/2002
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Crewe Diesel depot
and 37675 seems to have escaped storage for the time being. 4/1/2002
The wires were
down North of Crewe and chaos reigned with many "drags"
happening. Most Liverpool trains were cancelled or terminated
at Crewe with a fleet of buses outside but this one seemed to
be getting through. EWS power in the form of 86401 "Hertfordshire
Rail Tours" headed the train for Liverpool with 87028
"Lord President" dead on the rear. Did
the 87 fail or was it a positioning move? 4/1/2002
47854 "Women's
Royal Voluntary Service" was held outside the station
for quite some time with what I believe to be the Poole-Liverpool
train, 11.45 ex-Crewe. It was eventually put into platform 12
where it was terminated. 4/1/2002
Attached to the
rear, and very dead, was 47840 "North Star".
4/1/2002
The 08.30 Euston-Holyhead,
due out of Crewe at 10.45, eventually left at 12.10 due to a fault
on the train somewhere well South of Crewe. The HST was formed
with 43080 leading 43178 (pictured). The temperature was now -3
Celsius with a wind chill factor approaching absolute zero so
I left. 4/1/2002
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