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08/07/09 at 08:57 Virgin Trains Coupling At Crewe

Virgin’s Euston – Holyhead services were all supposed to be worked by Voyagers from the start of the summer timetable, but the Saturday 1045 departure from Crewe has reverted to being a pendolino ‘drag’. Here the shunter plugs 390038, just arrived from Euston, into 57310 ready for the trip away from the wires to Holyhead. 20th June 2009

Source: wwatfam

Train Information

The Class 390 Pendolino are a type of train used in Great Britain. They are electric multiple units using Fiat's tilting train pendolino technology and built by Fiat Ferroviaria. Fifty-three 9-car units were built for Virgin Trains from 2001 to 2004 for operation on the West Coast Main Line (WCML). The trains were the last to be assembled at Alstom's Washwood Heath plant, in Birmingham, before its closure in 2005. The British Rail Class 57 diesel locomotives were introduced by Brush Traction between 1997-2004. They are rebuilds, with new engines, of former Class 47 locomotives, originally introduced in 1964-5. They are known as "bodysnatchers", or "Zombies" to enthusiasts, by virtue of the fact that the shell (body) of the class 47 has been stripped, rewired and re-engined[1] and as "GM"s due to their being "genetically modified" with General Motors equipment.