August 2009

10th August 2009

Well the Summer is now in full swing and August is due to be a very busy month for the lads with visits to Crewe Diesel Depot and Crewe Basford Hall, the annual Barrowhill Diesel event August is usually a great month for visiting pres lines and events.

Massive thanks go to John, Jez and Freightliner for the quality visit to Crewe Basford Hall, Thanks to Gareth for the lifts to Crewe and Barrowhill and to Dek, Jerry, Marshy and Mr Brown for yet another quality trip CHEERS LADS

12 August saw Jerry, Ste Brown and Myself have a mammoth visit to Nuneaton and a cracking day it turned out to be after heavy rain in the early morning turning into bright sun and clouding over later afternoon plenty of Liners rattling around Big Thanks to Jerry for the ride and Steve I hope ya legs are better soon mate CHEERS

Pendo's pass at speed at Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	Pair of Voyagers race south through Nuneaton with a Chester - Euston service 12-08-2009.jpg	Another Pendo races towards London passing 90035 with a lengthy empty car train on approach to Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	90044 heads a Crewe bound liner at speed through Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg
86612 + 86604 dragging 66503 with a London bound liner approaches Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	66591 powers a northbound liner from a standing start at Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	66543 slows at Nuneaton with a Birmingham bound liner at Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	66539 approaching Nuneaton with a liner from Birmingham 12-08-2009.jpg
66501 pauses with a Northbound liner at Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	66301 heads a empty coal through Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	654 ??? slows at Nuneaton for a siganl check 12-08-2009.jpg	390028 makes a rare stop at Nuneaton with a serivce every couple of mins in both directions these things soon became a pest 12-08-2009.jpg
390019 smiles as it races through Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	170523 with a Standsted Airport - Birmingham service calls at Nuneaton 12-08-2009.jpg	153364 waits to depart Nuneaton with the last run to Coventry of the day 12-08-2009.jpg	153364 spent the entire day shuttling between Nuneaton and Coventry 12-08-2009.jpg
D8132 on display at the entrance to Barrowhill Roundhouse 08-08-2009.jpg	A sad sight the once busy Crewe DMD 08-08-2009.jpg	97302 with 97304 on display at Barrowhill 08-08-2009.jpg	86638 stabled with 86621 at Basford Hall Yard 08-08-2009.jpg
86622 the last remaining grey can on the network stabled with 86614 at Basford Hall Yard 08-08-2009.jpg	86621 paired with 86638 stabled at Basford Hall Yard 08-08-2009.jpg	86610 66530 86614 stabled between duties at Crewe Basford Hall Yard 08-08-2009.jpg	86609 paired with 86610 stabled at Basford Hall Yard 08-08-2009.jpg