CREWE
- CHESTER - BANGOR - HOLYHEAD North Wales
Coast August 2001 Part 2
Is it a drag or a push? 90006
"Modern Railways Magazine/Roger Ford" propels
"dead" 87034 "William Shakespeare"
and train South through Crewe 30/8/2001
47785 "Fiona Castle"
brought EWS liveried passenger haulage back to the North Wales
Coast line when it provided the power for the 9.19 Holyhead-Crewe.
30/8/2001
The train was pushed South
by hired-in Class 90 number 90146. 30/8/2001
47853 powered the 11.15 for
Liverpool ex-Poole. See below for this locomotive on the N.Wales
Coast. 30/8/2001
142041 arrived from Chester
with a Manchester Airport train and is seen here on the crossover
from platform 6. 30/8/2001
66224 came round the back
of the station with a set of MGR(?) wagons. It stopped briefly
and then left in a hurry with sanders blasting along the track
- very dramatic! 30/8/2001
There were plenty of HST
sets around and this shot shows 43067 leaving Crewe with 43180
attached to the rear, destination unknown. On the right is 156420
working the Chester-Crewe shuttle. 30/8/2001
At last! A Hippo in the form
of 175111 on the 13.19 for Holyhead ex-Birmingham. 30/8/2001
Not the coast line but the
Chester services. Hale station in Cheshire, and the scene of
my early travels to school when I commuted between Hale and Knutsford
every day, often behind an ex GCR D11 4-4-0! Much different today
with open barriers and weeds. 142009 arrived on a Manchester
Piccadilly service. 28/8/2001
150140 also arrived en route
for Chester.....
.....and didn't hang around.
28/8/2001
47853 storms away from Colwyn
Bay station with 1A46, the 9.19 Holyhead-London. 26/8/2001
The train heads off East
through the the morning mists towards Rhyl and Chester. 26/8/2001
Some of the passengers waiting
to gain access to 175010 as it joins up to 175105 at Crewe to
form the 15.27 for Holyhead. All sorts of things went wrong after
that. 24/8/2001
47749 "Atlantic College"
was at the head of a Serco test train waiting in the platform
12 loop. At the rear was 47737 "Resurgent".
24/8/2001
175105 still waits to leave
as 47737 stands at the rear of the Serco train. 24/8/2001
