November 11th 2000
The enthusiast's life is not always
a happy one and hanging around in the gloom is part of the deal.
The smoke cloud in the background has been left by 37216 as it
accelerated South having left the Diesel Depot. 11/11/2000
37401 "Mary Queen of Scots"
arrived on the 7.49 Holyhead-Crewe and then left with the ecs
for the carriage sidings. En route it passed 37412 "Driver
John Elliott" waiting in bay platform 7 with the 10.28
Cardiff rugby special. 11/11/2000
37412 pulls away from platform
7 as it starts its journey to Cardiff with a rugby special. This
was one of several trains to Cardiff today, details are on the
North
Wales Coast site. 11/11/2000
37412 heads for the South Wales
route, the train comprised two Regional Railways and four Riviera
GWR liveried coaches. 11/11/2000
86236 "Josiah Wedgwood"
arrived on a Virgin London-Liverpool train and entered platform 11. 11/11/2000
"RES" liveried 47759
arrived in platform 5 with DVT 82108 and a Virgin set in tow.
Coupled at the rear was 86424 which later took the train out to
Birmingham after the Class 47 had detached. It then ran South
to reverse through the station and head back North up the West
Coast Main Line. Wires down? 11/11/2000
37421 arrived in platform 12 with
the 8.53 Holyhead-Birmingham. The train arrived on time but was
held and subsequently left 20 minutes down. 11/11/2000
Another strange manouevere saw
heritage DMU set 101694, in Strathclyde livery, arrive from the
North and draw into platform 6. It loaded passengers and set off
South where it stopped and reversed to take the centre road en
route for Chester. Normally this train would take the Chester
route from Platform 6 but apparently the crossover is currently
out of use. 11/11/2000
It wouldn't be Crewe if HST set
34101+34099 didn't show up at some time of the day. Here 34101
makes "clag" as it leaves platform 11 with the 08.25
Virgin service from London Euston to Holyhead. 11/11/2000
...and at the other end of the
push-me-pull-you is 34099. If you cut its head off does it grow
another? 11/11/2000
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