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40029 'Saxonia' at Chester on Saturday 10th March 1984 having just arrived with the Manchester Piccadilly - Chester leg of the 'Conwy Crusader' tour (1T13 07:05 Coventry - Llandudno).

 

This particular part of the itinerary coverd the now closed sections of lines between Skelton Jct and Warrington Arpley Jct, and the Birkenhead docks line -

 

www.sixbellsjunction.co.uk/80s/840310cc.htm

 

25279 stands on the Reception line in the Middle Yard, and behind that, the now demolished NCL warehouse.

 

40029 is sporting a replacement set of bogies at the No.2 end, exchanged at Stratford works in December 1982, most probably from 40025 which was resident there at the time.

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Taken on March 10, 1984