Chester Station Shots

A selection of photos taken in and around Chester station, mainly during the nine years I worked there. *Chester is in "TRAINSPOTS" location number 94*
*UPDATED 3rd December now 234 images*

142057 in Northern Rail livery seen stabled in platform 6 at Chester for the weekend 1024x768 Buy Print	150269 in Northern Rail livery in the morning sunshine at Chester's platform 6 800x601 Buy Print	153312 in Platform 3a at Chester having arrived from Wrexham. 800x601 Buy Print	158831 at Chester after a recent dusting of snow. 800x600 Buy Print
175104 stabled out of use on the depot headshunt at Chester with a thick layer of frost covering it. 800x601 Buy Print	175107 'Coronation St - Rover Return' with another First liveried classmate in platform 3a at Chester 1024x768 Buy Print	175109 passes by 175011 at Chester, 011 sporting new Arriva logos. 800x600 Buy Print	20302 (+37218) wait the road at Chester returning the flasks to Crewe from Valley. 640x480 Buy Print
20305 & 37069 pass Chester in a snow storm with the Valley flasks 800x600 Buy Print	20305 on the RHTT being passed by 47847 on a Crewe - Cardiff Ruggex. 800x600 Buy Print	20305 with 37259 passing through Chester with the Valley flasks. 640x480 Buy Print	20307+20314 return light engine from Valley 640x480 Buy Print
20308 + 20309 at Chester on 6K41 to Crewe waiting for the road at Chester. 800x601 Buy Print	20309 + 20302 + 37605 on 6K41 Valley to Crewe flasks. 800x600 Buy Print	20309+20311 pass through with two flasks in tow 640x480 Buy Print	20311 & 37069 pass by with the flask to Crewe 800x600 Buy Print
20312 + 37602 on 6K41 Valley-Crewe pass Chester 800x600 Buy Print	20315 + 20306 passing through with the flask train 800x600 Buy Print	221125 'Henry the Navigator' stands unusually in Platform 1 at Chester. 800x601 Buy Print	31459 "Cerberus" at the rear of the FNW stock test train,engine shut down due to traction motor fault. 640x480 Buy Print
31466 in Chester Yard, after an impact with the buffers in Platform 5 640x425 Buy Print	31466 somehow came into contact with the stopblock in Platform 5 and moved it somewhat! 640x418 Buy Print	31468 "Hydra" at platform 3a,Chester on 5T01/5T02 test train from Newton Heath depot. 640x480 Buy Print	31468 "Hydra" in platform 1,with 47776 "Respected" in the distance. 640x480 Buy Print
31468 "Hydra" leads into Chester on a test run of the FNW loco + stock. 640x480 Buy Print	31468 'Hydra' & 31602 'Chimaera' on the first Chester-Blackpool Class 31 trip for FNW with just three coaches. 640x480 Buy Print	31602 "Chimaera" having attention to its radiator after covering it (and most the loco and ballast) in oil earlier in the morning 640x480 Buy Print	31602 "Chimaera" smoking well on platform 1,Chester with the 15:49 Blackpool North. 640x480 Buy Print
31602 "Chimaera" very unwell at Chester,oil covering the bodyside and bogie after a pipe burst. 640x480 Buy Print	33202 + 33103 with a Crewe Works special returning to Salisbury. 800x600 Buy Print	37029 passes through Chester light engine towards Crewe after a trip to Valley. 800x600 Buy Print	37059, now a flush-fronted refurbished DRS loco with 37218 6K41 from Valley. 800x600 Buy Print
37069 and 37605 stand Chester goods with the Valley>Crewe flask train 2032x1524 Buy Print	37069 lead by 20311 passing by towards Crewe with a flask. 800x600 Buy Print	37109 returning the empties steel wagons from Mostyn to Healey Mills passes by 47776. 640x480 Buy Print	37109 working 6Z84,an additional steel train to Mostyn Docks through Chester. 800x600 Buy Print
37109 working through with 4J32 Arpley to Chirk logs 800x600 Buy Print	37174 passes through the morning mist and sun on the Dee Marsh. 640x480 Buy Print	37194 passing Chester with the flask train for Crewe. 800x600 Buy Print	37197 about to leave for Carnforth from Chester. 800x600 Buy Print
37197 as seen in platform 4 from the footbridge. 800x600 Buy Print	37197 at the rear of an empty stock from Bangor to Chester. 800x600 Buy Print	37218 and 20302 on the Valley to Crewe flasks pause at Chester 640x480 Buy Print	37218 leads 37059 on the DRS operated Valley to Crewe flask train. 640x480 Buy Print
37259 & 37059 pass a sunny Chester with a single flask from Valley 800x600 Buy Print	37259 in multiple with 20305 on 6K41 Valley to Crewe, this time with a load of three flasks (a lot for this train). 640x480 Buy Print	37375 in Mainline blue on 6F62 Dee Marsh to Arpley 640x480 Buy Print	37401 returns to North Wales on 6D19 Arpley to Holyhead Cargowagons seen passing Chester. 800x601 Buy Print