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Finally, a day off coincided with good weather so the first day out
'training' of the year.

We chose Crewe- and was it a bad choice?-- Lets just say that between 2
o'clock and 6 we saw just five locomotives-- 3 of those were coupled together
and another was a steam train on a charter- I'll save what the other one is
until later to keep the suspense going.

I'm in the process of computerising my train data from my youth and have just
been reminiscing over the records of a visit to Crewe and Chester from
Northampton back on 13th February 1978- i was 13! On that day we saw 24's and
25's, 31's and 40's on freight, 47's on passenger- and freight and
representatives of most of the AC loco classes then about. Today we saw units.
All the freight went via the avoiding line.

The weather hasn't been great of late, so not been out spotting often at all-
managed to get out yesterday (wed 19th of march) and visited Warrington Station
for this shot of 66545 heading south light engine on the fast line, and the shot
below of green liveried 37411 on the depot

My Birthday treat!