Wagrug, RHTT and Lady P on the coast

[beast66606]

Due to Wales playing rugby against Australia (16-25), in the Millenium stadium, Arriva Trains Wales ran a rugex using the WAG stock in top'n'tail mode, went out for this and also got a poor shot of the RHTT (the sun came out, directly behind it, just as it got to me )

 

First a hippo B)

 

175112 on 1H83, 07:45, Llandudno - Manchester Piccadilly

 

and another

175107 on 1W82, 05:21, Cardiff Central - Holyhead

 

And then a 158 heads into the very strong sun

158838 on 1G20, 07:15, Holyhead - Birmingham International

 

with a Voyager chasing it's tail

221142, Matthew Flinders, on 1A70, 07:55, Holyhead - London Euston

 

A "halo effect" hippo heads down the coast.

175114 on 1D32, 07:50, Manchester Piccadilly - Llandudno

 

Followed by the mucky brothers - 66105 and 66101 on 3S71, 23:43, Crewe IEMD - Crewe IEMD via Shrewsbury/Moreton-on-Lugg,Bidston,Shrewsbury,Crewe and Holyhead

 

and a minute late the wagrug headed the opposite way

57315 and 57313 on 1V77, 08:08, Holyhead - Cardiff Central Ruggex (Wales 16 - Australia 25, Millenium Stadium)

 

I dropped my lad off at Flint as I was heading over to Crewe Basford Hall and he wasn't coming

 

158830 on 1D11, 07:09, Birmingham International - Holyhead - departing under a LNWR footbridge

 

and another hippo arrives under the same bridge

175110 on 1H84, 08:45, Llandudno - Manchester Piccadilly

 

An LMS footbridge, provided in the 1930s when the level crossing was closed, the infil on the right hand platform marks the site of the LMS signal box, closed in the 1980s, the rods and wires passing under the platform.

 

The goods shed also still survives.

 

After the Crewe visit I stopped at Shotton to get the return drag. approaching an AWS magnet

175103 on 1V61, 14:23, Holyhead - Cardiff Central

 

175105 on 1D39, 14:50, Manchester Piccadilly - Llandudno

 

and the final train of the day - Yes M'lady - and boy was it dark !

57307, Lady Penelope, and 390030, City of Edinburgh, on 1A55, 14:36, Holyhead - London Euston

[tinsley-toton]

I think the white line painter on the Down platform at Fflint (picture 10) had had a few to many the night before

I just about remember the old box/crossover etc, when was it all taken out Dave?

 

T-T

[beast66606]

I think the white line painter on the Down platform at Fflint (picture 10) had had a few to many the night before

I just about remember the old box/crossover etc, when was it all taken out Dave?

 

T-T

 

1990 iirc, I was there, and if I'd had some tools with me, a lot of it would have been preserved - the S&T gave me permission to take whatever I wanted but with no tools I couldn't get anything (the diagram had already gone).

 

I've got pictures of some of the signals being felled