Ash Bridge
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It would be really interesting (but probably impossible) to find out where the ECS was being carted off to.
Not only that but why was the class 85 parked up at Stockport when Longsight was only just up the road? Questions, questions!
I was thinking just the same thing and after consulting the www.2D53.co.uk website learned that the L character of the headcode denotes a special working within the division so at a guess perhaps no further than Crewe? regarding the 85 quite a lot of freight and parcels trains coming of the Guide Bridge line performed a Diesel to Electric traction change at Heaton Norris Junction, particularly so on weekday evenings not to mention the the York-Shrewsbury TPO at the station itself every evening so perhaps handier to layover here than Longsight? It would be good if someone could confirm though.