Manningtree Station - Feb 20010 Classes 66, 90 321 and 360

Manningtree Station - Feb 2010 Selection of services stopping at or passing through station.
ex Virgin Class 90 Loco's and MkIII coaches now form majority of London to Norwich services.
East Coast mainline excepted, this is the last major artery to feature locomotive hauled /propelled trains. How long before these are replaced by a long distance electric unit - possibly based on Class 360's? Only time will tell. Class 90's perform very well in dry weather, but find wet rails a bit too slippery. Nowadays pretty reliable, but still the odd failure requiring assistance from another Class 90 or sometimes a Class 47 'thunderbird'. Occasionally replaced by Class 321's which are cleared to run to Norwich.
Class 360 service forming Harwich Town to London Liverpool St service
Class 90 Loco propelled MKIII trainset form 09:00 London Liverpool St to Norwich -stops 09:58 -09:59
Class 90 Hauled MkIII trainset 09:30 Norwich to London Liverpool St -stops 10:17-10:18
Class 360 10:00 Harwich Town to Liverpool St - stops 10:21-10:22
Class 360 09:18 London Liverpool St to Harwich Town -stops 10:26-10:27
Triple Class 321 train forming 10:xx Harwich International to London Liverpool St boat train?
Class 66 Hauled freight train
Class 90 Propelled MKIII trainset 09:30 London Liverpool Street to Norwich

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Manningtree
• Great Eastern main line
• GEML
• trains
• Class 90
• Class 360
• Class 321
• Class 66

[stellarartwars07]

I grew up in Manningtree, and it's always been a good place for trainspotting. Has a rather nice bar on the station, which is about a mile out of town so it feels like the train is pulling up in the middle of nowhere. I preferred it in the diesel days (back in about '86) when there was quite a range of traction and rolling stock. These days you'll see 90s , 360s, 321s and 170s, with 66s handling most of the freight duties.

[SuperBigronnie]

Great vid love love love the old virgin stock wish they would of kept using them instead of these shit pendolinos

[benowahoo]

Fantastic vid!

[HitchinTrains]

in the title, do you mean 360s? :P good video though....