CREWE
- CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD North Wales
Coast September 2001 Part 3
Colwyn Bay in bright sunshine
and a blue Irish Sea make a wonderful backdrop for the class
47 hauled, 13.35 Holyhead-London. The two shots were taken from
Penmaenhead in as near perfect conditions as you can get. The
locomotive was 47790 "Dewi Sant/Saint David".
29/9/2001
A brief visit to Crewe revealed
66053 arriving from the Basford "virtual quarry" with
a ballast train before running round to take its load South.
28/9/2001
A 60 minute
stint in Crewe's Spring sunshine first revealed 66510 parked
in bay platform 8. The sun was warm but produced impossible
contrasts. 26/9/2001
In the Autumn
mist on the Diesel Depot yard was 37520. 26/9/2001
1A46, the
9.19 Holyhead-London arrived behind 47854 "Women's
Royal Voluntary Service". 26/9/2001
The class
47 was detached and replaced at the rear by 90002 "Mission
Impossible". 47854 then ran round and parked in
bay platform 10. 26/9/2001
The Sandbach
salt traffic appears to be a thing of the past now but the acid
tanks continue. 37684 "Peak National Park"
ran through the centre road and left towards Basford Sidings.
26/9/2001
The 3(!)
tanks were left behind and the locomotive returned North up the
West Coast Main Line. The machine stormed through the centre
road en route. 26/9/2001
I regularly
watched the Chester-Manchester Airport trains manoeuvre round
the faulty platform 6 trackwork but, today, there was something
different. The 12.00 from Chester in the guise of 142042 was
diverted into platform 11 which left to run North onto the WCML..
26/9/2001
The Pacer,
in "Merseyrail" livery, returned into platform 5 where
it again reversed to leave and gain the Manchester line. 26/9/2001
