14:43 - 50031 Hood is waiting in the yard at Llandudno Junction
50031 and 50049 had done a TPWS test run from Crewe to Llandudno Junction before collecting failed 47750 on 19 July. There were 50 of these locos built between 1967-68 at Newton-le-Willows and numbered from D400 to D449.
14:43 -
50031 Hood is waiting in the yard at Llandudno Junction
14:53 -
50049 Defiance had returned from Bangor. It is once renumbered
to 50149 in the mid 80s for working china clay trains.
14:54 - 50049 being coupled onto the rear.
15:07 -
Then came the shunting to sandwich failed 47750 between the 50s. 50031
goes on the front and ...
15:27 -
The convoy went under the bridge to gain access to the mainline ...
15:28 - ... then through the station to Warrington