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Andy Jones | all galleries >> A selection of blogs of trips around the UK >> Loco hauled train to Barrow and beyond...... > Last picture of the day
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22-JUN-2015

Last picture of the day

After a short wait and time for a coffee.....no hot milk the machine was u/s...
...we were greeted by this Class 150 pulling in to take us back to Leeds via the Giggleswick route.

This train is the once a day Leeds/Heysham Port/Leeds service on its way back to Yorkshire.

This train is used to connect with the Isle of Man ferry to/from Douglas. Normally with an hour connection time from the ship arriving.

I do note however that on the 16 July 2015, due to the ship's timetable being altered, the train leaves only 2 mins, yes two minutes after the ship's planned arrival time.....that's good planning and actually pathetic.

Why not delay the train to give punters a chance of getting on it, as there is nothing else to do in Heysham other than a taxi to Morecambe, and there's not that much to do in Morecambe either!

It rattled along well, with plenty of room it was a good run back to Leeds where we got the Huddersfield stopper back to Huddersfield and home.

Not quite the day we were looking forward to but after a few upsets it all worked out fine in the end.

Canon EOS 6D
1/250s f/9.0 at 35.0mm iso400 full exif

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