First out was 175003 on a Holyhead-Birmingham
train so the Chester line was now open after being flooded yesterday.
7/11/2000
Next was Class 87 number 87001
"Royal Scot" on a Virgin train, so they were
also running. 7/11/2000
Another Virgin train this time
with Inter-City liveried Class 86 number 86234. These locomotives
can be distinguished from the Class 87's by the windscreens, Class
87's have two panes. 7/11/2000
Mainline liveried 37216 was on
the Middlewich-Warrington freight again. 7/11/2000
86401 "Hertfordshire Railtours"
entered platform 12 with a mail train and soon departed up the
West Coast Main Line. 7/11/2000
Class 47 number 47843 "Atlas"
left the Diesel Depot and took the centre road before departing
along the Chester line. 7/11/2000
Another Class 86 hauled Virgin
train departed South. 7/11/2000
Class 60 number 60003 "Freight
Transport Association" entered the centre road with a
steel coil train which, I understand, should have run via Wrexham.
The Wrexham line was closed due to flooding. 7/11/2000
Another mail train this time double
headed by Class 67 number 67030 and Class 47 number 47736 "Cambridge
Traction & Rolling Stock Depot". 67030 is the last
member of its class to be introduced. 7/11/2000
The train, comprising 13 vans,
stopped at the North end of platform 12 where the two diesels
were detached and Class 90 number 90028 took over. The diesels
then went onto the depot yard to join 67011 and 67029 - 10% of
the Class. 7/11/2000
90028 "Vrachiverbinding"
takes over at the head of the mail train, presumably en route
to Warrington. 7/11/2000
37421 arrived in platform 11 on
1D71 the 12.07 Birmingham-Holyhead. 7/11/2000
Meanwhile 60003 with its load
of steel strip was still waiting for a green at the North end
of the station. 7/11/2000
While round the back of the station,
the two diesels off the mail train were heading for Crewe Diesel
Depot. 7/11/2000
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