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What do Virgin trains have at Crewe?

 

DRS have Gresty

Arrive Traincare have the old carriage sidings

Electric depot is DB

Freightliner etc are in the yards.

 

No Virgin stock is stored at Crewe - Liverpool, Manchester, Glasgow and Wembley. And mustn't forget Wolverhampton

Edited February 14, 2019 by woodenhead

This isn't Virgin, it's Locomotive Services isn't it - Jeremy Surname's show, surely.

 

 

EDIT: Jeremy Hosking - just checked and it is Crewe DMD, for charitable causes.

Edited February 14, 2019 by 'CHARD

 

Hi there,

 

Virgin does staff training at Crewe.  The centre is about 1km from the station on foot.  They have the rear power car of the Grayrigg Pendolino, and two trailer cars, parked in the car park outside - it's the one we scanned for the Revolution/Rapido model.

 

Is this an enthusiast open day or a potential recuitment open day?  If the latter then it's probably at the training centre.

 

cheers

 

Ben A.

Found a link:

https://www.railadvent.co.uk/2019/01/class-91-locomotive-to-visit-crewe-diesel-depot-open-day.html

 

It is the old diesel depot, who'd have thought one of the stars of the show would be a Northern 142

8 minutes ago, woodenhead said:

 

 

 

 

It is the old diesel depot, who'd have thought one of the stars of the show would be a Northern 142

 

If the rumours are to be believed, it will be the Northern 142 that's being reliveried into some sort of 'heritage' livery for its final year of operation before going off lease.

4 minutes ago, 4630 said:

 

If the rumours are to be believed, it will be the Northern 142 that's being reliveried into some sort of 'heritage' livery for its final year of operation before going off lease.

Liverpool & Manchester yellow

https://www.classicmagazines.co.uk/promotion/allchange?fbclid=IwAR0Jn7k85jpn3xLu80CDZmX89uIT_HbF-sgnVSKWLrWOIfhtuSb-C04sxh8#tickets

So it's organised by Virgin on Jeremy Hoskings site which was Crewe Diesel now transformed into the base for his TOC.