Crewe heritage centre & basford Hall

[windoze11]

Lo any news or pix from todays open day ????

looking forward to it will be there tommorow and is it easy to get to the other depots around crewe to take pix

cheers

 

[CosherB]

I went today. Nothing in steam, but Britannia looked good, unlike that pig-ugly class 70. You can sit in the driver's seats of the ATP, 87, 47 etc. Lots of 'in progress' steam restorations on view, including 'Royal Scot'.

The tickest for the basford Hall shuttle sold out very early. I wasn't too bothered about that but if you are, get there early!

 

[windoze11]

am getting there for 10ish so should get on the trip

 

[Simon Poole]

The tickest for the basford Hall shuttle sold out very early. I wasn't too bothered about that but if you are, get there early!

That was the main reason for my trip yesterday, arrived at 1030 at the Heritage centre annd the first queue was long, after playing £5.00 to get in, then queued up for the Basford Hall your quickly as i could, it was roughly 11 got to the front end and an man told us to gather roud first, then he told us that this tour would be the last, the Yard isn't fully opened to the public and they wouldn't be lots of locos

I refused to walk away after getting this far (i seen pictures of people's photos at Basford Hall Yard around this time last year and always wanted to take photos in Basford Hall yard this was my 1st visit), so i got my ticket and had 4 Hours to kill before the tour started

once it was 3pm, walked to the front and waited for the bus to arrive, it lleft at 1530 and got to Basford Hall Yard, got enough time to film and take photos of the yard, but even know there was four tours, there was an fifth tour! but even know i didn't had long there, i managed to enjoy my time at Basford Hall Yard

I heard other people saying that they were standing on Grass and there was ony 8 locomotives but but i saw roughly about 18 Locomotives and some of them were DRS Class 37 and Class 20's from Grestly Bridge, there was an DBS Class 66 in the yard and evenn two Class 70's! (70001 and 70006)

 

[matt]

I went today http://railways.mjspencer.com/gallery/v/CreweHCBasford/

Was good to get round Basford Hall. There was three class 70s there today. Thanks to Freightliner and Crewe Heritage Centre

 

[Mysterium]

Well here's what was there today:

Heritage Centre - 37683/70011/66619

Basford Hall - 20308/309
37423
47816
66606/520/588/605/589/525/512/545/529/623/610/185/564
539/620/540/532/114/533/520/543/565/526/612/505/170

70001/002/006
86612/638/613/639/604
90016/43/44/48

Great weather for photos and a very professional tour led by the lads from Freightliner who were prepared to go and get every number for you and also supplied us with a TOPS list too.

 

[CosherB]

Good to see on Matt's pic that Britannia was getting into steam today. Wonder where the test run was to?

There was a 70 at the Heritage Centre but I managed to avert my gaze. There really is no excuse for a locomotive to be that ugly!

 

[matt]

Good to see on Matt's pic that Britannia was getting into steam today. Wonder where the test run was to?

There was a 70 at the Heritage Centre but I managed to avert my gaze. There really is no excuse for a locomotive to be that ugly!

The Brit runs to Chester tomorrow. Times are on the loco movements page on uksteam.info

 

[96tommy]

I went today aswell. I got there for 10am to avoid dissapointment as it was a 2 hour ride. I got tickets for the second tour of the day at 12:50.

Pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/47309173@N06/archives/date-taken/2011/03/13/

I would like to say a big thank you for everyone who organised the vent. The staff at Basford Hall were also very good and they gave us a TOPS list for trains there!

 

[windoze11]

yer thanks to the organisers a cracking day out hope theres more depots to visit this year ) If only Toton .....