Avanti 807002 passing Crewe on its first WCML run 20/12/23

[@allan5919]

Excellent catch!

[@ejs229]

Cheers 😁

[@johnson_street_IEMD]

Where's the Merchant Park sidings? I gather it was dragged some way down from the north east by a 56 ?

[@ejs229]

I think it was dragged by a 69 from the Hitachi factory at Newton Aycliffe, then ran on its own power down from the ECML.

[@johnson_street_IEMD]

@@ejs229 ahh 56 / 69 gotcha ..

[@johnson_street_IEMD]

@ejs229 I don't think there are electrified lines between the ECML and WCML other than Carstairs and that's far too north for this move

[@ejs229]

@@johnson_street_IEMD it did go via Carstairs, went north then back down

[@johnson_street_IEMD]

@@ejs229 nice one Hitachi 👍 👌 👏