Caption:

A platform-end view of Manchester Piccadilly in 1973 with an

original series AL electric loco heading 1G6116.24 Manchester to Coventry service via Crewe and Wolverhampton in the middle, whilst an AL6 Class 86 readies itself at the adjacent platform with the ECS move to Lonsight carriage sidings with the stock of 1M68 10.15 Paignton to Manchester service. On the left, in the background, a Western Lines suburban Class 304 EMU is calling at Piccadilly having come from Manchester Oxford Road. On the immediate right are a couple of BRUTEs (British Rail Universal Trolley Equipment) for parcels traffic and part of the period modernisation plan. Neither the traffic, nor the BRUTES survived privatisation.