The Alan Harrison Collection Bonus (British Rail BR 1988) Part 3 Manchester Victoria (Diesel Trains)

I'd love to hear your thoughts about this video. Please leave comments below. Thank you. When I uploaded Episode 47 of the Alan Harrison Collection, I announced that it was the Finale. And indeed it was! However, a few weeks later, Alan contacted me to ask what happened to the material he shot in 1988!! I had another look at the disks and, much to my delight, found 25 minutes of additional material hidden away. So here is Part 3 of 3 bonus episodes… and the true finale I’m afraid! But what a way to finish… Manchester Victoria at its finest, before this wonderful station was totally rebuilt, buried underneath the Manchester Arena, with Trans Pennine services diverted to Manchester Piccadilly. Here, we see a Railfreight Class 31 idling away in one of the three through lines awaiting its next banking duty. Still relatively new Class 142 Pacers appear in both their original Provincial livery and Cornish Skipper livery, whilst the much missed Class 504 EMUs still have charge of services on the Bury Line, a route which was soon to become part of the Manchester Metro Tram Network. 47411 hauls a Newcastle bound rake of Trans Pennine liveried Mk2 coaches up Miles Platting Bank, followed by 47049 on rail sections and a pair of Class 37s on loaded oil tanks from Stanlow Refinery. A class 31 has charge of an empty ballast working, a class 47 leads a rake of empty oil tanks and 47229 powers through on a ‘Binliner’ rubbish working. An unidentified Class 31 heads Westbound from Platform 11 on a short rake of Mk2 coaches. I suspect this to be one of the short lived Blackpool or Southport ‘Club Trains’. Finally, after some candid shots of passengers on the concourse, we see a GMPTE liveried Class 504 starting out for Bury, with that characteristic rumble caused by the zig-zag welding on the rail heads of the Bury line platforms.

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