Apologies for the lack
of updates - due to house renovation (never again). Many thanks to everyone who enquired about the
site.
A visit to Crewe for
the first time in weeks and the first thing to catch my attention
were the new information screens - very good if they keep working.
19/12/2006
It was the first fog
of the Winter and very gloomy it was too. This was 57302 bay
platform 8 awaiting the arrival of the morning Pendolino for
Holyhead. 19/12/2006
57302 "VIRGIL
TRACY" waiting while 92015 passes through platform
11. 19/12/2006
92015 "D.H.Lawrence"
ran off into the gloom before returning to pass through the station's
centre road and head North. 19/12/2006
A shot of 57302 from
a different angle to recreate a 50's feel - the days of "pea-soupers".
19/12/2006
57302 ran off to find
its Pendolino to be replaced by Freightliner's 66559. 19/12/2006
Switched off in platform
2 was 57311 "PARKER", even Photoshop
couldn't improve this shot very much. 19/12/2006
175102 left for South
Wales, this unit is now sporting the "ARRIVA Trains Wales"
emblems. 19/12/2006
Time for the Holyhead
"Pendo" to leave and the fog was worse than ever. Bear
in mind that this was taken at 10.50 in the morning. 19/12/2006
It was lighter in the
North West as 390052 "Virgin Knight"
was dragged off towards Chester and North Wales. 19/12/2006
I could hear a 66 standing
on the Manchester line but couldn't see anything. Eventually,
66581 "Sophie" came into view and ran
South. 19/12/2006
153362 "Dylan
Thomas 1914-1953" was in bay platform 9 on Chester
shuttle duty. 7/9/2006
Later, 175010 arrived
to form a Holyhead train - it too was bearing the ARRIVA vinyls.
19/12/2006
Back after the reopening
of the Manchester line, a class 323, 323223, entered platform
1. 19/12/2006
This one caught me out.
A long triple horn blast announced the arrival, and rapid departure,
of three class 325 mail units. They were moving some and I assume
they formed a pre-Christmas extra. These units were once a common
sight at Crewe before Royal Mail decided to carry mail by road.
19/12/2006
Track animal DR73929
passed through and entered the Manchester line. 19/12/2006
It has been reported
that platform 12 is having its roof removed. Certainly the platform
and through lines are closed off but there was no obvious evidence
of roof removal just yet. This was the scene from the foot bridge
with scaffolding erected over the tracks in the distance. 19/12/2006
This was a sneak view
from the other foot bridge with some ominous looking augers on
the platform. 19/12/2006
- BANGOR - HOLYHEAD
