A pair of nearly newish bendies arrive from Liverpool, passing a 108 and 116 unit in the bay platform. The 142s were steadily replacing the 108s while the 116s, cascaded from the Valleys, were replacing the 142s as they dropped like flies.

Tags:   British Rail Wigan North Western 142 DMU 116 Pacer

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Not a good phot by any standards (including these early ones) however this is my first train phot with my then new SLR, a Praktica MTL5B. This would have been a couple of days after christmas 1986.

Tags:   86420 British Rail Wigan North Western Class 86 Class 86/4

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142038 leads what is possibly 142030 (from the sketchy notes made on the day) on a Liverpool service.

Tags:   142 142038 British Rail Wigan North Western DMU Pacer

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A couple of real units in the bay for the all-shacks Lime Street service.

Tags:   116 British Rail Wigan North Western DMU

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... probably. Typically unidentified brush happily strumming north with empty HAAs in late 1987.

Tags:   British Rail BR Class 47 Brush BR Blue Wigan North Western DMU

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