Crewe and Warrington Bank Quay. 18th March 1998

47806 departs from Crewe with the 09.01 Crewe-Bristol Temple Meads additional service which was run to cope with the extra passengers travelling to the Cheltenham Festival horse racing meeting. At Warrington. 47348 passes into the distance as 31154 trundles into the yard at the head of a trip working from Sutton Oak which is followed by 56088 working the late running 6M58 Lackenby-Warrington Arpley and 37077 hauls a rake of ballast wagons through the station followed by 56088 now working the 6E41 Warrington Arpley-Lackenby. Intercity liveried, but EWS owned 47802 heads a rake of ballast wagons into Arpley Yard, 56050 slows for a crew change, 86426 passes through the station with the 5M02 Bristol Temple Meads-Warrington RMT empty mail vans and 56050 is seen again departing. 86208 slows with the 5F95 London Euston-Warrington RMT followed by 37055 with a Northbound train of welded rail. 90127 runs light engine from Arpley Yard. The driver then changes ends and heads South. 37046 heads a rake of EWS liveried MHA wagons to a stop, 86208 speeds past with the 1A89 Warrington-Euston mail, 37046 runs into the yard as does 37077 a short while later. Three Class 325 EMU's pass through with the 1M90 Shieldmuir-Willesden mail, 86426 hauls the 1V62 Warrington-Bristol Temple Meads mail, 90141 passes with the 4S87 Felixstowe-Coatbridge Freightliner, 87012 departs with the 13.40 Glasgow Central-London Euston, 37370 and 37675 head a Walton Old Yard-Ayr empty MGR. My first DRS liveried Class 37, 37611 storms through the station light engine followed by Rail Blue liveried 56004 on the 6E15 Jarrow-Stanlow, 90135 on the 6G94 Carlisle Yard-BescoT, 60082 pauses for a crew change with a Walton Yard-Mossend empty MGR, 60018 is seen with the 7M30 Knockshinnoch-Fiddlers Ferry MGR, AND 37890 trundles to a halt with a train of welded rails. The day concludes with 37415 departing Crewe with the 17.21 Birmingham New Street-Holyhead.