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This video is property of Train_PlaneHub, "RachaelMatt" please do not re-upload this video or any on my channel! 1080p HD! Onboard the highland sleeper bound for Aberdeen, Inverness & Fort William from London Euston on Sunday 3rd April 2015. Due to bank holiday engineering work a number of sections on the WCML were closed meaning services were taking some unusual but quite interesting diversions. Hauled by a classic class 87 loco were leave Euston and travel down the slow lines as far as Rugby, which meant passing through Northampton station itself which is usually avoided. From Rugby we travelled up the Trent Valley line like normal as far as Colwich Junction where we leave the WCML and head towards Stoke-On-Trent, Macclesfield, Stockport and pass through Platform 14 at Manchester Piccadilly! We continue along the recently electrified route through Manchester Oxford Road, Deansgate & Eccles before rejoining the WCML at Wigan South Junction. I then included the arrival & departure from Preston onto this video too just because its 87002! I'm told this is the first time a class 87 has been between Manchester & the WCML via Oxford Road & Deansgate "Chat Moss" as the route only electrified 2 years ago! So that's quite something. Thanks for watching! COMMENT, THUMBS UP, FAVOURITE, SHARE & SUBSCRIBE!!
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very good
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I'm guessing line was close somewhere for a sleeper to divert via Manchester Piccadilly and Northampton
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and whirring happily
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Classic Mate, thanks for bringing back many memories, done the sleeper many times from IInverness to Crew, to change at 4am in a freezing morning, was 2 86s and 18 coaches, icicles hanging off locos and stock, wish I had a camera !!, :)
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30:15 Home where the heart is. :D
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When was the last time an 87 worked into/through Piccadilly?
Must be a while ago now! Good to have some loco haulage back there even if its only the occasional divert! -
This certainly was the first time a Class 87 ran under its own power via the Chat Moss route, because the route clearance was only granted on the Friday, two days beforehand!
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Another excellent video of the Beast that is 002, was very pleased you included the passing of Macclesfield my home town & the first 87 to grace it for over ten years! I was just a bit further down the line at Prestbury for this once in a lifetime chance. Well done 87006.
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Interesting to see Theenthusiast101 on someone else's video. How often does that happen, two prolific rail film makers passing in the night and videoing the same journey.
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Lovely to hear that vacuum cleaner sound again, particularly at Watford Junction, which at one time was my local station in the days of 86s and 87s.