>>> I travelled on 507004 on the 16.42 from Southport this afternoon.
Ta.
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I passed 507004 on probably that train (Monday this is) .....
I was on 508136+508139 to/from Hunts Cross on 15:57 ex Southport / 17:06 ex Hunts Cross; I had been covering every train on the Southports, but, then, went silly: I had my SR SWD 508/0s moves notes with me, and,
I had had 508036+508039 to Hampton Court, and out of and into
Waterloo [London]; therefore the chance to do
508136+508139 in to and out of Waterloo [Mersey] was too much to miss. Especially as the 508/0s were a HC (Hampton Court) service and the 508/1s were another HC (Hunts Cross) service.
The problem being to comply with pedantic OCD rules
, I had to disembark there, and then later reboard them there on a different service: in and out on the same train not good enough. In doing that, I overlooked covering 507004 again and only remembered after got to hotel
; the 40-50 mph wind gusts with horizontal rain were not conducive to go back out again at 20:30 - if you know where the Premier Inn is in Southport you know the walk there from Chapel Street station is somewhat exposed.
Picked up 507004 yesterday Tuesday; with the hotel in Southport, pole position to cover if it were working, which it was, on the 4th train I covered. Typical of course, I tripped over it again
and had it a second time later in the day, right at the end, while drifting to Lime Street to leave the area.
>>> Interesting. I rode 141 114 and 108 on the Wirral and saw 010 in the wall sidings at New Brighton. A short stop at Sandhills later there were 011 017 and 130 on SOP-HNX and all OMS and KIR services seen were 777s.
I may well have seen either or both of you as I too had all of 508108 508114 508117 508124 508141 on Wirral yesterday, leaping on and off at Birkenhead North and Park and Central at random to see as much as practical as well as getting to Chester and New Brighton; if one of you was taking photos at Birkenhead North between trains after earlier at New Brighton, that was me there too. I was focussing on 508s moves, me being a SR type person, and that they go first. So did moves that rejected any 777, and kept 507 miles down to a minimum.
May prove to be my last 508/507 visit to Mersey; been up there 3 different occasions this year, can't see me doing it again no plans to eeeek out the last drops of them; I prefer to do my "last trips" with squadron fleets not the last hangers on.
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