CREWE
- CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD North Wales
Coast July 2001 Part 3
Last day of July and 37886
"Sir Dyfed/County of Dyfed" appeared
on the Manchester line, ran to the North end of platform 5 and
stopped then moved off up the West Coast Main Line. 31/7/2001
My first sight of a class
175/1 3+3 formation in the form of 175105+175110 leaving platform
12 with the 11.15 for Holyhead. 31/7/2001
Views around a signal. 47839
(L) was arriving from the North Wales line with the 9.19 Holyhead-London
while 87008 "City of Liverpool" waits
on the WCML to take over for the journey South.
47839 ran through platform
11. 31/7/2001
Meanwhile, on Crewe Diesel
Depot, 37674 "St Blaise Church 1445-1995"
came off the pumps to run South. 31/7/2001
The Penmaenmawr stone trains
are regularly featured on the North Wales Coast website and this
is the Crewe end where they dive into the undergrowth as they
take the avoiding line to gain access to the virtual quarry at
Basford. 66604 is featured. 31/7/2001
