Recent content by Higginsafcb

Could have gone via Shrewsbury, then either Chester or Crewe. I was doing Leicester to Rhyl and staff were fine with me going off piste a bit with my routing.

The Accumulated wisdom on here , it now makes sense. I was trying to get from Leicester to Rhyl after the football. Ended up with an interesting Leicester-Derby-Tamworth-Stafford-Wolves-Shrewsbury-Chester-Rhyl trip. The 2 min xfer at Wolves was fun. My sympathies to the family of the deceased...

That makes a little more sense..

The rumour was person hit between Stoke & Macclesfield. What I found odd was why this stopped everything on the wcml north of Stafford towards Crewe and Derby to Stoke. Why would multiple lines be affected?

Just wondering what caused the chaos last night. Nothing from Derby to Stoke, nothing north of Stafford up WCML to Crewe or to Stoke.

Princess Pier route through Greenock still has some track in places.

Thought I saw some ex LNER Mk4's at Crewe today. When are they due in service with T4W?

Just wondering why they divert via the Middlewich freight line rather than head upto Warrington or reverse at Greenbank back onto the WCML.

Had a fun trip north on 18:10 Euston_Chester. Held at Nuneaton, and eventually terminated at Stafford where the Virgin Staff had utter chaos to deal with several train loads of passengers. Eventually a few services slowly forwarded to Crewe. Then an expensive taxi ride to north wales as no...

I was out for a walk near Bodfari in Denbighshire when I came across a DMU that looked pretty much abandoned & forgotten. Turns out there is some slow progress bringing back to life. http://preserved.railcar.co.uk/56160.html

On the times I gone from Crewe there has always been a good half dozen boarding

I've done Crewe to Corrour for a day in the hills.

Past: 33/1 with 4tc or a 4Rep 2*4tc combo Current: Highland sleeper with 92 or 73. Future: Quite fancying the D-stock up the Conwy Valley

North Wales Mainline is more of a big branch line but cracking scenery. Gets me to football if it's a Saturday match at the correct time of day. Just don't mention the late train cattle class 2 car 175 run from Chester.

If there's anything going spare transferring a few to North Wales would be good. The overcrowding is stupid at times.