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Cross Country Trains Class 221 Super Voyager DMU 221133 working 1O12 09.25 Manchester Piccadilly to Bournemouth departs from Stafford as 221134 arrives with 1M26 06.30 Bournemouth to Manchester Piccadilly

Staudt Industriegebiet 221 134

Staudt Industriegebiet 221 134

Cross Country Trains Class 221 Super Voyager DMU 221144 leading classmate 221134 approaches Catholme Lane, Barton under Needwood working service 1V62 13.39 Newcastle to Bristol Temple Meads

221134 accelerates away from the speed restriction through Ambergate and heads for Sheffield and beyond with a Cross Country service, 14th August 2009. 221134 is a five car tilting Super Voyager built by Bombardier in 2002. Originally operated by Virgin Trains it is now operated by Arriva Cross Country and has now acquired their brown/silver livery

Cross Country Trains Class 221/1 221134 is seen heading north at Clifton, near Morpeth with 1S37 0903 Birmingham, New Street to Edinburgh. 26th November 2023.

SHOT AT WESTER HAILES STATION 04/12/2023. DEPICTS THE EARLY RUNNING (6E) 1V56 GLASGOW CENTRAL TO PLYMOUTH SERVICE

Cross Country Trains Class 221 Super Voyager DMU 221134 slows to negotiate Barton South Junction, and enter Central Rivers depot, working 5D48 Birmingham New Street to Barton Central Rivers depot

221 134 approaches Dawlish Station with some grey clouds in the background. Does anyone like Voyagers? Apparently one of their nicknames is 'Vermin'! When the Cross Country HST Fleet is retired (within a day of this shot being posted) I presume the XC Voyagers will be worked even harder to take up some of the slack. I've travelled on them a few times and while I appreciate the size of the windows, with the Class always seemingly being asked to carry more passengers than they can I've found them to be cramped and bit noisy. This shot was taken from the new part of Dawlish Promenade over the route to the beach. One of the few bits of improvement on the sea front here it offers good views and a more seamless walk along the sea wall, especially for the mobility impaired.

CrossCountry 221134 passes Radley with 1M54 1345 Bournemouth to Manchester Piccadilly, 6/7/23.

Cross Country Trains Class 221 Super Voyager DMU 221134 passes Elford at 09.20, running 13 minutes late, working 1V83 06.24 Newcastle to Reading

Arriva CrossCountry 221134 , Stoke-on-Trent 4.5.23

* Introduction
As a preliminary to the next in the 'A Window on the Past' series, which is to be based on two? views at Masbrough Station in the mid-to-late 1980s, as attempt was made to obtain 2 contemporary shots along the same lines. The older shots were taken looking north and then south directly along the Sheffield lines to the left of the station, looking from Coronation Bridge. In those days it wasn't uncommon to have freight running through the station along the platform 1 and 2 lines, the passenger lines to and from Sheffield. Also common was for the workings to take or come off the other lines, the 'Old Road' freight lines at Masbrough South Junction, if required, and pass through the station on the passenger lines, if need be rather than along the platform 3 or 4 lines on the right, the continuation of the 'Old Road' as far as the Masbrough North Junction, when the four lines converged. So, on this day, the idea was to try and get two of the, just about, only freights which run along the platform 1 & 2 lines, running south, the 4M03 from Doncaster to Peak Forest and running north from Peak Forest, about an hour later, the 6E51, to Selby(GBRf). As it was, on the 7th March, there was also an interesting working running anyway, from GAscoigne Wood to the Up Sidings at Lydney, in Dean Forest, near the Severn River, hauling a set of empty aviation fuel tanks, in a bright green livery.
So, heading off for that, and another couple of moves around the same time, but all four of these now on the 'Old Road', Barrow Hill lines, to the right of the station, looking north from Coronation Bridge. This meant there was no chance of getting corresponding photographs, to match those of the 1980s, which means another trip over, when I can gauge whether the two moves will run, today, with lots of snow on the ground in the local area, looks like being one of those, but no good for me! And, an hour later, although both workings were activated very early on this morning, neither have run... Phew!
With bright overhead sun in the south, fortunately behind the camera and intermittently cloud covered, the pictures show a rich pallette of colours, helped by the similarly interesting, and colourful traction; all GBRf apart from the oil tanks move. The first, composite, shot shows the view looking north, as per the requirement for the shots in the 'A WIndow on the Past', but now with passenger traction on the Sheffield Lines at left and a long coal train! on the BArrow Hill 'Goods Lines', on the right. The now overgrown and disconnected, at both ends, station goods line at left, is hardly visible, in marked contrast to what it looks like in the 1980s shots to be featured later. Hurtling north along the platform 1 line, is a 'Cross Country Trains' class 220, 'Voyager' on the 1S37 long day's haul, Plymouth to Edinburgh service, with no less than 19 station stops on the 05:25-14:06, 9.5 hour run; 'Cross Country' indeed. Of more interest, over on the platform 4 line, heading south is a long, heavy, 2400 tonne timing load, coal train headed by a class 66 G.B.R.f., this one 66781, was 66016, 'Darius Cheskin', this nameplate once on the 66778 loco, running on the 6M61, Immingham H.I.T. to Ratcliffe Power Station working with a rake of 24 HTA-E full Coal Hoppers. The local Rotherham refuse truck in purple/blue/orange livery, is temporarily parked on the Midland Road bridge in the background, admiring the view..?

As the GBRf class 66, 66787 slowly approaches Masbrough's north-end signal, S0425 at red, on the 'Old Road', two more traction types have chance to get to their destinations whilst the GBRf waits for a clear path. The two Network Rail guys are now about to head off to their van in the car park, and that looks to be that for the moment, lunchtime maybe. At upper right, heading north along the platform 1 line, is T.P.E. class 185, 185139 on the hourly Manchester Piccadilly to Cleethorpes service, this one 1B72; the service to and from Manchester Airport now appears to have vanished and I understand that passengers now have to change at Manchester to catch a local connecting service to the airport; much more convenient I am sure. Below the north-bound TPE is another of the more recently introduced traction types, this a blue/grey Northern unit class 170, it heading in the opposite direction, south along the platform 2 line towards Sheffield on the Scarborough to Sheffield service, 1J44 with 170456 in charge. As there is little more happening in the next hour or so and having obtained some idea about the views for the forthcoming Masbrough piece, time to head off, some shopping beckons!

Montabaur 221 134

Approaching Morpeth working 1V70 from Edinburgh Waverley to Bristol Temple Meads - 09/05/23

1O12 0925 Manchester Piccadilly-Bournemouth Via Macclesfield.

Cross Country Voyager Class 221 No. 221134 emerges from Milford Tunnel with 1S39, the 06:27 Plymouth – Edinburgh service on 7th March 2023.