Due to issues at Liverpool, our next destination, we contemplated aborting that option and going to Manchester on this Swansea/Manchester service but in the end we decided to risk Liverpool and what turned out to be some right wing demo that turned out to be a disaster for the right wingers....out numbered they took shelter in the left luggage office protected by the police that they probably despise. The Runcorn line was the last bit of new line for the week.

In the end the had to sneak out in disgrace and have a special train take them out of Liverpool to Edge Hill where they were kick out and left to their own resources.
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It did however cause chaos to the services out of Lime Street