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The evening sun
beautifully catches the red and gold of the EWS livery as 37401
"Mary Queen of Scots" leaves Crewe with 1T50
the 15.30 Crewe-Holyhead. 13/11/2000 |
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37401 passing the
Crewe Heritage Centre's signal box with 1T50. 13/11/2000 |
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Class 92 number
92004 "Jane Austen" heading for Crewe station
having left the IETD. These locomotives generally work Channel
Tunnel traffic. 13/11/2000 |
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37216 seems to
live at Crewe these days. Today it left the depot and travelled
South making smoke 11/11/2000 |
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A load unworthy
of a class 37 as 37216, in "Mainline" livery, hauls
a Middlewich-Warrington goods northwards out of Crewe station
on the West Coast Main Line. 10/11/2000 |
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"Coradia"
175007 arrives with a Holyhead-Crewe train. 10/11/2000 |
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AC Electric Class
87 number 87003 "Patriot" in Crewe's platform
12 with an additional London Euston - Liverpool Lime Street service.
The train was packed solid with passengers, most of whom disembarked
at Crewe. 10/11/2000 |
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37401 "Mary
Queen of Scots" had been on Crewe Diesel Depot on 7th
November and now appeared on the 7.49 Holyhead-Crewe in platform
12. 8/11/2000 |
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37421 arrived hauling
the 8.53 Holyhead-Birmingham which was on time. 8/11/2000 |
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37421 passing by.
8/11/2000 |
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Always wise to
remember that the Class 175's are around and that 37/4 haulage
is rapidly coming to a close. 175011 on the 10.07 Birmingham
- Holyhead. 8/11/2000 |
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92032 "Cesar
Franck" passed through on the centre road - very noisy
these engines. 8/11/2000 |
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LNWR pillars and
a class 158 DMU accompany 37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol"
as it enters Crewe's platform 11 with the 12.07 Birmingham-Holyhead.
3/11/2000 |
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The bright Autumn
sunlight reflects off 37429 as it waits for a late running Virgin
Euston-Liverpool train. Quite a number of passengers transferred
onto the North Wales Coast train which consequently left 10 minutes
late. 3/11/2000 |
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The lengthening
rays of the Sun catch the exhaust from 37429 as it sets off for
Holyhead. No chocolate and cream liveries today. 3/11/2000 |
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Off to Chester
and the North Wales Coast. 3/11/2000 |
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"Cyclops"
67018 was visiting today. It is very difficult to photograph
these machines at Crewe because of the way the light reflects
off the corrugated bodywork. These locomotives appear quite small
when considering their power capability. 3/11/2000 |
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37429 "Eisteddfod
Genedlaethol" enters Crewe's platform 11 with 1D71,
the 12.07 Birmingham-Holyhead. 2/11/2000 |
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37429 threads its
way through the steelwork as it leaves Crewe for Holyhead. 2/11/2000 |
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EWS liveried 86426
"Pride of the Nation" waited on the centre road
with a mail train. The EWS livery seems to suit most locomotives
including the Class 86 electrics. Apparently Ed Burkhardt has
launched a takeover bid for Wisconsin Central, EWS's American
parent company! 2/11/2000 |
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Sadly November
breaks with the news of another serious accident on the railways.
The crash appeared to involve a mail train, hauled by 67002,
running into the rear of a stationary coal train near Bristol,
the locomotive riding up over wagons and apparently hitting a
bridge. Thankfully, early indications are that the driver escaped
relatively unhurt although one can only imagine the traum of
the event.
These machines have started to
appear regularly at Crewe and this shot is of 67016 when it visited
on 28th July 2000. The Class 67 locomotive is capable of 125
mph and this incident demonstrates once again that driving trains
can be a dangerous occupation - one wonders what the rewards
are. Why is it that the media report accidents involving passenger
trains as "crashes" whereas those involving freight
are "derailments"? 1/11/2000 |
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