Approaching the
end of locomotive hauled trains from Crewe on the North Wales
Coast so a "final" run to Holyhead and back on the
10.07 ex Birmingham. 47760 "Ribblehead Viaduct"
was in charge.
Everything ran
smoothly and to time until just West of Rhyl when a red held
the train for a few minutes.
On to Llandudno
Junction and some of the lost minutes had been recovered.
Onto the causeway
and the beautiful vista of Conwy Harbour came in to view.
Is there really
any better railway location than Conwy Castle?
And that archway.......
Lost time was recovered
by Holyhead and the runround performance began.
Meanwhile, the
HST that I had seen earlier leaving Crewe was waiting to leave
as the 13.43 Holyhead-London Euston. 43007 was leading 43097
on this service.
47760 had shot
out of the station to return onto the waiting stock to form the
14.02 for Birmingham.
The other end of
the HST at the buffer stops.
47760 waiting to
leave.
Coat of many colours.
Entering Conwy
Castle bridge/tunnel from the return direction.
Back into Crewe
and platform 6 complete with Summer flowers.