Bizarre sighting - can anyone explain!

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Bizarre sighting - can anyone explain!

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At about 2pm this afternoon I was driving along the M60 from Bredbury towards Denton; as you come up out of the dip the now-singled Stockport - Reddish South - Denton - Guide Bridge line crosses the motorway; on this bridge I watched the tail end of a Virgin IC 225 plus a number of Coaches cross over towards Denton and Guide Bridge... :-? :-? :-?

Can anyone shed any light on why this train was being dragged this way????

This is the line that has one scheduled service a week, going one way only!
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A Virgin IC 225 :o

Do you mean IC 125 or could it have been a Mk3 DVT and coach set?
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ForburyLion wrote:A Virgin IC 225 :o

Do you mean IC 125 or could it have been a Mk3 DVT and coach set?
Ok, so just proves I know nowt about trains...

Twas one of these - a Virgin DVT as you state - and it was trailing along behind!

http://www.cr3ky.com/vt2003/image3.jpg
http://www.transportimages.com/albums/V ... entral.jpg
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Post by barrymcguire9999 »

Yes, some West Coast services are diverted this way on a Sunday - mainly London-Scotland & Liverpool-London & vice versa..........
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Yep, either that or a lot of ECS from Stockport comes this way.
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