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East Lancs Railway. Saturday 23rd April 2022. A bit different this Saturday for me as I was meeting up with some fellow musicians in Bury, so decided to use up on of my free passes on the East lancs Railway. I drove up to Heywood railway station and caught the first train up to Rawtenstall and...

Mills Hill, Greater Manchester. Monday 18th April 2022. Easter Monday, and Id succumbed to using Realtime Trains, (RTT), to track down my required units, 195`s particularly as I needed two of them. The first one 195 019 was showing as working from Leeds to Manchester, so I drove up to my local...

Thats fantastic information, thank you so much. 1650298194 OK thank you.

Yes I think it might be

When I was at school in the 50`s every kid went trainspotting, so its certainly declined over the years, having said that the growth of the preservation moment was responsible for some growth and interest.

Ive noticed a few small yellow industrial shunters from the train between Meadow Hall and Swinton, it looks like a steel works, would anyone know what company this is, Is it Liberty Works?

Longsight and Newton Heath TMD. Sunday 17th April 2022. Easter Sunday and after an early session at the gym and a Sunday lunch at my favourite pub, I was itchy to see if I could track down another class 195, I was now down to 3, plus I still need 4 of the class 397 Transpennine units, so all...

Yes I still need a few of the Transpennines, a shame, but a great afternoon, I was mainly on platforms 13/14 for the sun phots.

Manchester-Blackpool. Saturday 16th April 2022. The Saturday of the bank holiday weekend and I decided to try to track down the 4 class 195`s I needed. Metrolink was operating a normal service, so I drove down to Crumpsall tram station and caught the first tram into Manchester Victoria. A class...

Does anyone know where these actually run, if indeed they are running?

Thanks very much everyone, its only about £3.00 and I give them too charities anyway, I was just curious, but thank you. 1650698630 How strange, without disputing the outcome, they suddenly decided to allow it and I didnt even respond??

I must admit Transpenning are normally very good at paying delay repay claims, but on Bank Holiday friday my claim was unsuccessful, despite my train being cancelled and having to wait over an hour, this was on a return section of a day return ticket though, so Im not sure if these count?

Doncaster revisited. Friday 15th April 2022. With the alarm set for 05.00 and a drive down to Crumpsall for the first Metrolink tram of the day into Manchester Piccadilly again, but it wasn’t running, so I finished up driving into Manchester. I was retracing my journey from the previous...

Manchester-Doncaster. Saturday 9th April 2022. Another early start with the alarm set for 05.00 and a drive down to Crumpsall for the first Metrolink tram into Manchester Piccadilly, with time to get breakfast at Greggs before the 07.20 Transpennine to Doncaster, but it was running 35 minutes...

I must admit, I di like my cheeses, lol, Ill try it Tech, cheers mate.

Well Ive had a battered sausage in Thurso so why not a Wigan halloumi cheers mate

Manchester Piccadilly. Monday 4th April 2022. A spare Monday for a change, so I decided to catch the last hour or so of the morning rush hour at Manchester Piccadilly station. I was hoping to cop, maybe my last two Allerton Class 331`s or maybe one of my class 195`s. I had no luck with the...

I thought they only sold pies in Wigan, what are Halloumi Strips?

It stopped at two stations on the way up, but when I had to get the bus back it only took half of that time, I think it was a Pendolino bus :-)

Not sure what its called, it was just across the road from Northwestern station.