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There is no access from the UP lines into Wolverhampton across Platform 6. Any services that depart from there must shunt out from Plats 2/3/4.

Regular ATW diversionary routes, dependent on traincrew route knowledge.. Shrewsbury - Nantwich - Crewe: diversionary routes via Wrexham/Chester via Oxley/Stafford Shrewsbury - Wrexham - Chester: diversionary routes via Crewe/Nantwich Chester - Helsby - Manchester: diversionary...

Maybe the train struck something on the line which caused the problem? After all in that part of the world, the public are free to drive onto the railway, particularly in tractors, and get away with it.

I hear the residents of Harlington are having a street party tonight, commuters are celebrating the announcement of 0% fare rises in January.

153320 was used to replace a defective 175/0, it was a last resort decision to save cancelling the train. ATW had trouble with 175s that day as 150253 was also unusually on a Llandudno Manchester diagram.