90010 on a southbound test train at Crewe. 15/9/88.

90005 waits at Liverpool Lime Street between duties. 10/9/88.

90009 "The Economist" at Liverpool Lime St. 4/4/92.

The sun was shining throughout our journey from West Yorkshire to this location. However, you get yourself to where the action is, freeze your balls off and then the train turns up in conditions like this! Ah well, all in a day's work I suppose! 60042 nears Northwich station on the 19th November 2005 at the rear of the "Guild & Docker" in the aforementioned freezing and foggy (localised) weather.

37429 waits to leave Crewe with the 21.25 Crewe to Holyhead. 9/1/97.

37414 "Cathays C & W Works" is at Crewe with a North Wales Coast train on the 9th January 1997.

45106 was re-painted in (the wrong shade of) green in 1988. It was destined as a replacement for D200, which had just been withdrawn. However fate intervened and the loco suffered a major fire shortly after this shot was taken, so the plan didn't happen. The location is Liverpool Lime Street on the 10th September 1988.

47776 "Respected" passes Plumley West on the 27th February 2004 with 5K44 09.00 Man Picc to Crewe. This was the ECS of an inward working from Holyhead.

31602 passes Plumley West, with 31468 tucked away at the rear, on 2D44 06.40 St Annes to Greenbank. 27th February 2004.

37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol" is seen near Hargrave with 1D77 16.18 Crewe to Bangor on the 24th May 1997. Beeston Castle is prominent in the background.

37426 "Vale of Rheidol" waits to leave Shrewsbury with a Crewe to Cardiff service on the 15th September 1988.

37518 is seen near Hargrave with 1D79 17.18 Crewe to Holyhead on the 7th September 1996. Beeston Castle is visible in the background.

47624 "St Andrew" stands at Crewe with a Euston to Holyhead service. 9/1/97.

37431 "Co of Powys- Sir Powys" leaves Crewe with a train to Cardiff on the 15th September 1988.

37423 "Sir Murray Morrison" passes Rowton, south of Chester, with 1K73 16.22 Bangor to Crewe on the 24th May 1997. I only ever visited this location once. I now wish I'd done it more often.

37431 "County of Powys" stands at Crewe with a Cardiff to Liverpool LS service. 15/9/88.

I saw very few of the Cardiff to Crewe and Manchester workings when they were hauled by Cardiff-based 37/4s. So after much work in Photoshop, I present 37429 "Eistedfodd Genedlaethol" arriving at Crewe on the 15th September 1988 with a morning train to Manchester.

37425 roars past the former Waverton station on the evening of 20th May 1995 with 1K73 16.22 Bangor to Crewe.

57304 "Gordon Tracy". Rowton. 1K41 14.15 Holyhead to Euston. 19/7/08.

45103 passes through Crewe with a single inspection saloon in tow, on the 27th May 1986.

37420 "The Scottish Hosteller" waits at Crewe for departure for Holyhead on the 10th January 1997.

66086 rounds the curve with a ballast off the line from Stoke on the 30th March 2004.

40145 thrashes up the 1 in 60 towards Disley with "The Buxton Forester" - 1Z47 06.58 Birmingham International - Buxton. 15/9/07.

90015 pauses at Crewe with a Euston to Manchester at 00:12 on the 10th January 1997.

37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol" runs into Chester with 1K61 10.22 Bangor to Crewe on the 15th April 2000.

There were (are) some good photographic locations away from the actual coast, from which to take pictures of the services to Holyhead and Bangor. One such was (is) Hargrave. Here 37401 "Mary, Queen of Scots" heads for Crewe on the 16th October 1999, with 1G97 Bangor to Birmingham New Street.

90001 comes to a stand at Crewe with 1A61 12.35 Liverpool to Euston. 30/3/04.

90014 leaves Crewe with1F17 13.10 Euston to Liverpool. 30/3/04.

67004 arrives back at Crewe after a crew training run along the North Wales Coast on the 30th March 2004.

Crewe Diesel Depot pays host to 56121, 47362, 33019, a couple of 25s and an 08, on the 27th May 1986.

"North Wales Coast Motive Power Day", the 20th May 1995, sees 31105 and 31512 heading past the former station building at Waverton, with the 18.40 Chester to Crewe.

81021 stands at Crewe on 27th May 1986 with a northbound service. Note the Class 150/1 Sprinter DMU in the adjacent platform. These had just entered service at the time.

47840 "North Star" passes Hargrave with 1A62 Holyhead to Euston on the 31st May 2003.

47844 passes Saltney Junction, near Chester with 1A32 09.52 Holyhead to Euston, on the 16th October 1999.

47750 heads one of the "final" Crewe to Holyhead loco-hauled services on the "last day" - 30th March 2004. The train was 1D65 10.30 to Holyhead.

37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol" passes Hargrave on the 16th October 1999 with 1D69 Crewe to Holyhead.

37429 "Eisteddfod Genedlaethol" heads past Saltney Junction, Chester on the 16th October 1999 with 1K66 10.22 Bangor to Crewe.

37415 heads away from Chester at Saltney Junction on the 16th October 1999, with a Birmingham New Street to Holyhead service.

37408 "Loch Rannoch" is near Beeston with 1D82 18.24 Crewe to Bangor. 19/8/95.

Class 25s await their fate on the scrap line at Crewe TMD on 27th May 1986.

31163 heads south through Shrewsbury station with a "Speedlink" coal train. 15/9/88.

60024 passes Plumley West, near Northwich, with 6H03 Oakleigh to Tunstead on the 27th February 2004.

37426 "Vale of Rheidol" waits to leave Crewe for Cardiff on the 15th September 1988. A crew change is in progress and both drivers are in the photo.

31468 passes Plumley West with 31602 bringing up the rear, as they power 2N97 15.49 Chester to Blackpool North. 27/2/04.

66602 heads a ballast working through Crewe station on the 30th March 2004.

43098 & 43063 pass Saltney Junction with 1D87 08.25 Euston to Holyhead on the 16th October 1999.

47313 at Helsby with a fertiliser train. 13/4/89. Working anyone?

66603 is at the rear of a southbound ballast train at Crewe on the 30th March 2004.