Roaming the West Coast Rails: Lower Hatton, Staffordshire (145 miles from Euston)

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Roaming the West Coast Rails: Lower Hatton, Staffordshire (145 miles from Euston)
Roaming the West Coast Rails: Lower Hatton, Staffordshire (145 miles from Euston)

90019 'Multimodal' leads 3 class 325 EMUs past Lower Hatton while working 1s96, the 1605 Willesden (London) to Shieldmuir (Glasgow).

During the summer of 2019 mail trains were diverted from the west coast route to avoid engineering work at Acton Grange Junction. Although the diversionary route via Manchester's Castlefield corridor and the Chat Moss line was electrified, paperwork issues prevented the mail units from operating under their own power, requiring them to be dragged by class 90 locomotives.

Mail trains operated on the west coast route from its opening. As has been well documented, dedicated mail trains in the UK ceased in September 2024.

Photograph taken using a camera mounted pole.

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Taken on: August 1, 2019
Sets appears in:   • Roaming the West Coast Rails (Christmas 2024)    • From 2019: Trains in the British Landscape   
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