47810 stands on platform 5 at Manchester Piccadilly after arriving with 1H26 08:51 Birmingham New Street - Manchester Piccadilly vice Virgin XC Vomiter on the 29th April 2003
Obviously communication between Virgin XC control & Network Rail was fine on this day, as platform 5 at Manchester Piccadilly is the only platform where you could run the loco round. As this was taken some 8 months after Virgin XC had ditched loco hauled trains & inflicted their hideous Vomiters on the general public, so no spare loco's were on Longsight to drop onto the stock for the return working so 47810 had to run around its train. 22 years later & the general public are still having the woefully inadequate now 'Arriva' XC Vomiters rammed down their throats, still with the same pokey rancid interiors & no sign of a replacement anytime soon.
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