Caption:

Sunday sequence at Crewe - 1. An interesting mixture of

the modern railway of the 1970s with traditional adjuncts as AL6 Class 86 number E3176 arrives from the north at Crewe with a West Coast express while a young spotter hurries down the platform to watch what happens next; whilst all around are period trollies and the flagstones of years past. Note how much parcels traffic was still being conveyed by rail. Were those trollies, made to a very traditional pattern, still being produced and who by? It is possible that this loco still survives as number 86607.