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It’s June 1972 at Crewe Diesel Depot and grubby English

Electric Type 4 Class 40 number 310 rests between duties. There was still plenty of traffic around to find work as the 9T71 headcode on the front Sulzer Type 2 Class 25 bears witness. They have been in use working local trips to and from steel works, chemical plants, aggregate workings and many more industrial terminals in the area. For 310, to keep it busy, all Inter City passenger workings to Holyhead were usually powered by Class 40s at this time, as were passenger workings to Barrow-in-Furness.