RAIL 150: MANCHESTER-EDGE HILL-MANCHESTER
Engine: Princess Royal class 4-6-2
No 6201 Princess Elizabeth
Load: 12 coaches, 406 tons tare, 435 tons full
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miles sch m/sec mi/hr
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0.00 MANCHESTER VICTORIA 0 0:00
0.70 Salford 3:26 easy
sigs
1.12 mp 30.5 (Ordsall Lane) 4.48 easy
sigs 0*
2.62 mp 29 11:09 easy
4.04 Eccles sigs 25*
5.04 Patricroft 15:37 40
6.01 Barton Moss Jc SB 16:55 45
8.87 mp 22.75 (Astley) 20:29 52
10.87 mp 20.75 (Glazebury) 22:43 55
12.87 mp 18.75 (Kenyon Jc) 24:59 47
14.87 mp 16.75 (Parkside Jc) 27:55 35*
15.87 Newton-le-Willows 29:34 39
16.90 EARLESTOWN 24 31:30
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0.00 0 0:00
1.12 mp 13.5 (Collins Green) 3:46 34
2.83 St Helens Junction 6:09 43
4.47 mp 10.25 (Lea Green) 8:46 34
5.82 Rainhill 10:58 39
7.72 mp 7 13:23 57
9.03 Huyton 14:51 50
9.54 Roby 15:33 46
11.13 Broad Green 17:40 43
12.12 Olive Mount Jc SB 19:09 36
12.97 mp 1.75 (Edge Hill E) 21:08 slack
13.34 EDGE HILL 20 22:28
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0.00 0 0:00
0.37 mp 1.75 (Edge Hill E) 1:37 slack
1.22 Olive Mount Jc SB 3:48 34
2.21 Broad Green 5:18 43
3.80 Roby slow 5*
4.31 Huyton 11:11 29
5.62 mp 7 13:20 40
6.62 mp 8 15:06 29
7.52 RAINHILL 11 17:30
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0.00 0 0:00
1.35 mp 10.25 (Lea Green) 3:49 34
2.97 St Helens Junction 6:04 51
4.60 mp 13.5 (Collins Green) 8:10 42
5.82 EARLESTOWN 9:51 48
6.85 Newton-le-Willows 11:06 49
7.85 mp 16.75 (Parkside Jc) 12:26 42*
9.85 mp 18.75 (Kenyon Jc) 15:07 48
11.85 mp 20.75 (Glazebury) 17:28 54
13.85 mp 22.75 (Astley) 20:02 41
16.71 Barton Moss Jc SB 23:53 47
17.68 Patricroft 25:05 46
18.68 Eccles stop 0*
21.60 mp 30.5 (Ordsall Lane) 39:06 slack
22.02 Salford 41:14
slack
22.72 MANCHESTER VICTORIA 32 45:51
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Date: Sunday 29th June 1980
dep: Manchester Victoria 12.05pm
arr: Edge Hill 1.52pm
dep: Edge Hill 3.33pm
arr: Manchester Victoria 5.02pm
This, the first of the Manchester-Liverpool 150
Sunday trains, got things off to a bad start.
Firstly, the crew were clearly ill at ease with the
locomotive, secondly there were severe signal delays
leaving Manchester. Then, on the return journey,
the Liverpool Yob culture was well to the fore as
a youth hurled a brick from an overbridge near Roby,
breaking the front Cab glass, giving the crew a
shaking up, but fortunately causing no injury. Finally
an emergency stop, reason not known, near Eccles.
The original plan was for each Sunday trip to be hauled
by a different locomotive, but following the problems
the Newton Heath men had with 6201, David Ward sensibly
gave them for the rest of the series a locomotive they
would be familiar with. So Jubilee 5690 Leander took
over and handled the trains with ease.
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