Search results

This might help you,its all off the top of my head from my days spotting back in the mid 70s,usually at Wigan NW. When the AL6s became 86s they were made into 2 sub classes,86 0xx were made slower and were freight only,these did haul freightliners and possibly other freight in the period...

Was the docklands car ever tested/run on the Metrolink,I seem to remember it was only tested on a specially build piece of track in a park in Manchester(near reddish depot),this was before metrolink was built. dave

IIRC from that era the 86s didnt run passenger trains north of Preston on a regular basis as the climb up shap was too steep for them,this is why the 87s were built and they operated all the north of Preston scheduled services from London. There were the "splitter trains " from Manchester...