Springs Branch
Established Member
Thanks - that would be the date, a couple of weeks before electric working was introduced between Crewe and Preston.http://www.bropendays.co.uk/wiganspringsbranch1973.html suggests it was 7 July 1973.
And I was sitting in 87 001. I now remember I was surprised at the time that this new loco was not numbered E3200, this being at the very start of the TOPS renumbering scheme.