Caption:

As we have seen, until the completion of the WCML

electrification throughout from London to Glasgow all trains changed from diesel power to electric or vice versa at Crewe and this is a view of the southbound locomotive siding for engines awaiting the arrival of any diesel-hauled trains from the north or from the Chester line. They consist of a pioneer Class 81 still with its smart cast numbers E3013 and later to become 81011, followed by three Class 86s, two of which are E3140, later 86046/86258/86501 and E3145, later 86014/86414/86614. The passengers, not customers, milling around on the platform are waiting for a train from Barrow-in-Furness to take them on to London.