Image 37605, 37602 & 57309, outward leg of The Three Peaks Challenge, London Euston-Bangor (1Z51), Wilson's crossing
37605, 37602 & 57309, outward leg of The Three Peaks Challenge, London Euston-Bangor (1Z51), Wilson's crossing
37605, 37602 & 57309, outward leg of The Three Peaks Challenge, London Euston-Bangor (1Z51), Wilson's crossing This was the photograph that nearly took my index finger off....well not quite! This image was taken from the top of my step ladder raising me above the palisade fencing. It shows 37605 and 37602 leading the outward leg of the Three Peaks Challenge charter that had set off from Euston and was heading to Bangor running as 1Z51. I had intended to take a going away photograph of 57309 'Pride of Crewe' at the rear but as I turned my ladder started to tip over with me attempting to prevent this but in doing so caught my right index finger on the top spike of the palisade fencing slicing it open. Needless to say, I did not get the shot but did manage to get myself to casualty with the badly injured finger wrapped in a lens cloth tightly held together with some cable ties from my camera bag. Many thanks to an unknown fellow enthusiast who packed my camera equipment away whilst I was trying to keep myself compos mentis! NB some six years later the scar is still very much in evidence and the nerves appear to be very slowly growing back with some tingling sensation returning to the end of the finger. Keywords: 37605 37602 57309 outward leg of The Three Peaks Challenge London Euston-Bangor 1Z51 Wilson's crossing DRS Direct Rail services Pride of Crewe
37605, 37602 & 57309, outward leg of The Three Peaks Challenge, London Euston-Bangor (1Z51), Wilson's crossing This was the photograph that nearly took my index finger off....well not quite! This image was taken from the top of my step ladder raising me above the palisade fencing. It shows 37605 and 37602 leading the outward leg of the Three Peaks Challenge charter that had set off from Euston and was heading to Bangor running as 1Z51. I had intended to take a going away photograph of 57309 'Pride of Crewe' at the rear but as I turned my ladder started to tip over with me attempting to prevent this but in doing so caught my right index finger on the top spike of the palisade fencing slicing it open. Needless to say, I did not get the shot but did manage to get myself to casualty with the badly injured finger wrapped in a lens cloth tightly held together with some cable ties from my camera bag. Many thanks to an unknown fellow enthusiast who packed my camera equipment away whilst I was trying to keep myself compos mentis! NB some six years later the scar is still very much in evidence and the nerves appear to be very slowly growing back with some tingling sensation returning to the end of the finger. Keywords: 37605 37602 57309 outward leg of The Three Peaks Challenge London Euston-Bangor 1Z51 Wilson's crossing DRS Direct Rail services Pride of Crewe


This was the photograph that nearly took my index finger

off....well not quite! This image was taken from the top of my step ladder raising me above the palisade fencing. It shows 37605 and 37602 leading the outward leg of the Three Peaks Challenge charter that had set off from Euston and was heading to Bangor running as 1Z51. I had intended to take a going away photograph of 57309 'Pride of Crewe' at the rear but as I turned my ladder started to tip over with me attempting to prevent this but in doing so caught my right index finger on the top spike of the palisade fencing slicing it open. Needless to say, I did not get the shot but did manage to get myself to casualty with the badly injured finger wrapped in a lens cloth tightly held together with some cable ties from my camera bag. Many thanks to an unknown fellow enthusiast who packed my camera equipment away whilst I was trying to keep myself compos mentis!

NB some six years later the scar is still very much in evidence and the nerves appear to be very slowly growing back with some tingling sensation returning to the end of the finger.