shredder1
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Greater Manchester Day Rover. Saturday 31st October 2020.
Well last trip out for a while now full lockdown is coming in. I was supposed to be flying out to Romania on Friday, but that had to be cancelled also of course. So, I was restricted to travelling around Manchester on my senior pass, just to see what was around, especially Class 142`s, class 319s and any class 350`s.
After a drive down to Manchester for Piccadilly, it was a train down to the airport, luckily on a class 319 which was on a Crewe working. Returning from Manchester Airport to Manchester Victoria on the Middlesbrough service a Transpennine Class 185 for a Class 142 to Ince, on a Kirby working, the 142 was doubled up with a Sprinter class 150, but the doors were locked and everyone had to sit cramped up inside the Sprinter for whatever reason.
We had planned to catch another class 142 back to Hindley, but it was over an hour down, and despite being listed on the boards to stop, it went right through, so we lost an hour at Ince altogether, instead of what should have been a ten-minute change. We caught the next train to Wigan Wallgate and stopped for lunch in the Subway, which I guess is sort of healthy(ish). Returning to Wallgate station we were treated to Pacers in both directions on Kirkby workings, whilst also being lucky to snap the Knowsley working behind DB class 66164.
We next boarded a pair of Sprinter 150/1`s to Bolton and later returned to Manchester Piccadilly, in time to see GBRf class 66739 ex Trafford Park on containers passing through the station. Our next move was a Transpennine class 185 out to Stalybridge and returning to Manchester Victoria on a pair of Sprinter 150/1`s. At Manchester Victoria we took the lift up to the top of the car park to get a few photographs looking down over the bank, but two security bods had followed us up, I think they must have seen us on camera, and told us, apologetically, we were not allowed up there as it was a private car park, maybe it was closed to cars on that day?
Returning over the walkway and looking down on Metrolink we stopped at the top of the stairs and took a few shots on the platforms, when strangely a Northern security bod of types approached us and asked what we were doing, he was pleasant enough and said he was just curious, I guess after the bombing, Manchester Victoria has become a sensitive location now, which is only a good thing I suppose. Big Cat Transpennine class 68031 Felix brought here rake into Victoria from Longsight for a run up to York, so we jumped on it back to Stalybridge before returning to Manchester Piccadilly on a Transpennine class 185 via Guide Bridge and then to the car for the drive home. The weather was up and down, generally dull but with sunny spells, we also took a soaking at Ince when a storm went over. Hope you enjoyed reading this, with full lockdown now inevitable that will be the last of my trips for a while.
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Well last trip out for a while now full lockdown is coming in. I was supposed to be flying out to Romania on Friday, but that had to be cancelled also of course. So, I was restricted to travelling around Manchester on my senior pass, just to see what was around, especially Class 142`s, class 319s and any class 350`s.
After a drive down to Manchester for Piccadilly, it was a train down to the airport, luckily on a class 319 which was on a Crewe working. Returning from Manchester Airport to Manchester Victoria on the Middlesbrough service a Transpennine Class 185 for a Class 142 to Ince, on a Kirby working, the 142 was doubled up with a Sprinter class 150, but the doors were locked and everyone had to sit cramped up inside the Sprinter for whatever reason.
We had planned to catch another class 142 back to Hindley, but it was over an hour down, and despite being listed on the boards to stop, it went right through, so we lost an hour at Ince altogether, instead of what should have been a ten-minute change. We caught the next train to Wigan Wallgate and stopped for lunch in the Subway, which I guess is sort of healthy(ish). Returning to Wallgate station we were treated to Pacers in both directions on Kirkby workings, whilst also being lucky to snap the Knowsley working behind DB class 66164.
We next boarded a pair of Sprinter 150/1`s to Bolton and later returned to Manchester Piccadilly, in time to see GBRf class 66739 ex Trafford Park on containers passing through the station. Our next move was a Transpennine class 185 out to Stalybridge and returning to Manchester Victoria on a pair of Sprinter 150/1`s. At Manchester Victoria we took the lift up to the top of the car park to get a few photographs looking down over the bank, but two security bods had followed us up, I think they must have seen us on camera, and told us, apologetically, we were not allowed up there as it was a private car park, maybe it was closed to cars on that day?
Returning over the walkway and looking down on Metrolink we stopped at the top of the stairs and took a few shots on the platforms, when strangely a Northern security bod of types approached us and asked what we were doing, he was pleasant enough and said he was just curious, I guess after the bombing, Manchester Victoria has become a sensitive location now, which is only a good thing I suppose. Big Cat Transpennine class 68031 Felix brought here rake into Victoria from Longsight for a run up to York, so we jumped on it back to Stalybridge before returning to Manchester Piccadilly on a Transpennine class 185 via Guide Bridge and then to the car for the drive home. The weather was up and down, generally dull but with sunny spells, we also took a soaking at Ince when a storm went over. Hope you enjoyed reading this, with full lockdown now inevitable that will be the last of my trips for a while.
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