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Crewe platform 12 and
37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol" is still going
strong on 1G96 the 8.53 Holyhead-Birmingham. 23/12/2000 |
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Can you spot the class
37/4? |
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Correct! It is 37401
"Mary Queen of Scots" arriving with the 11.15
from Crewe to Holyhead. 23/12/2000 |
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Growling away...23/12/2000 |
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Can you believe it! 57007
is named "Freightliner Bond" - get it? 23/12/2000 |
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The penultimate week
of scheduled class 37/4 operations on the coast line and 37401
"Mary Queen of Scots" was in charge of 1K57,
the 7.49 Holyhead-Crewe. 22/12/2000 |
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After the train had emptied
the lights were extinguished and all doors and windows closed
for the train to leave for the carriage sidings. The locomotive
later returns the diesel depot and, of late, has run into bay
8 before crossing over to the depot. Today, because I waited
in bay 8 to photograph it, it ran straight across to the depot!
22/12/2000 |
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Platform 5 saw the arrival
of "Royal" class 47 number 47796 "Prince William"
with an ecs working of "Northern Belle" stock.
The train later left for Manchester. 22/12/2000 |
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37421 arrived on time
and ran into platform 12 with 1G96, the 8.47 Holyhead-Birmingham.
22/12/2000 |
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37401 "Mary Queen
of Scots" had arrived with 1K57 the 7.49 from Holyhead
and deposited its stock at the carriage sidings. It then entered
bay 8 before running out to enter the diesel depot from the South.
21/12/2000 |
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37702 "Taff Merthyr"
arrived in charge of the Middlewich-Warrington Enterprise train.
It came in from Middlewich with salt hoppers and one acid tanker.
When it returned to run North it had dropped off the tanker.
21/12/2000 |
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1G96 the 8.47 Holyhead-Birmingham
arrived behind 37426 and was running some 50 minutes late. 21/12/2000 |
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37429 "Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol" arrived at Crewe on 1G96 for Birmingham.
20/12/2000 |
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Crewe's platform 12 and
47780 stands at the head of a Serco test train waiting to leave
South..... |
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......while at the rear
was 47781 "Isle of Iona". 19/12/2000 |
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37429 "Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol" again arrived on 1D71 the 12.07 Birmingham-Holyhead.
37421/37421/37426 were on the Diesel Depot yard all lined up
and nowhere to go! 19/12/2000 |
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The class 50 diesels
are known as "hoovers" but really the class 92 electric
locomotives deserve the nickname more, they are very noisy when
the coolers switch in. This example is 92030 "Ashford"
18/12/2000 |
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Minutes later 47810 "Porterbrook"
left with a Virgin train. 18/12/2000 |
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Crewe Diesel Depot yard
contained 37426 (pictured) together with 37421 and 37428 "Midland
Railway Centre". 18/12/2000 |
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1D71 the 12.07 Birmingham-Holyhead
arrived 20 minutes down behind 37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol".
18/12/2000 |
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...and left shortly afterwards.
Platform 12 is quite a distance to cover when there is only a
short stay between arrival and departure and then you have to
hold the camera steady! 18/12/2000 |
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Crewe station was virtually
deserted at 15.00hrs but a maintenanvce train did arrive behind
"shed" 66196. 37421 and 37426 were waiting for work
on the Diesel Depot. 17/12/2000 |
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..and the front end.
17/12/2000.. |
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Merchant Navy class 35005
"Canadian Pacific" pulling away from platform
12 with the "Chester Chuffer". 16/12/2000 |
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Heading for the Chester
line. 16/12/2000 |
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While I stood on platform
12, Royal Class 47 number 47798 "Prince William"
crept into platform 5 with "Northern Belle"
stock. It later left on the Manchester line. 14/12/2000 |
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I heard the plaintiff
and off-key note of a 37 (is this all 37's or just the /4 sub
class?) and a few minutes later 37428 "The Royal Scotsman
etc." came through on the Middlewich-Warrington Enterprise
trip. I still have to catch this train on the Middlewich branch
and what a coup this would have been. 14/12/2000 |
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The train I had come
to see, reporting number 1G96 the 8.47 Holyhead-Birmingham, arrived
in platform 12 behind 37426...... |
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...and left again soon
afterwards just a few minutes down. 14/12/2000 |
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Sat in the Diesel depot
yard, not dead (yet!) but merely sleeping, were 37426(L) and
37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol". 14/12/2000 |
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37895 passed through
LE on the centre loop. 14/12/2000 |
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175003 arrived from Birmingham
to form the 11.15 for Holyhead and what a fight to board! 14/12/2000 |
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