pendolino

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.

Engineering Work at Chester Station

14th October 2007

After a very unsettled 2007, 2008 is looking brighter. I've got shed loads of stuff i intended to put up here, but didn't have the opportunity. Hopefully I'll
catch up slowly!!

This photo set dates from a Sunday in October when the track was being relayed in Chester Station and mostly features stabled stock including a 'thunderbird + pendolino' and a pair of 37's on a leaf spraying train.

My Birthday treat!