RTC 'The Mancunian' 28th Sept 2024

After a few sunny hours the cloud has thickened so these two shots from this morning are pleasing.
In the cutting at Searchlight lane and crossing the viaduct at Penkridge

 

Must be rare for the same steam tour to use two charter sets. Image of them side by side at Kidderminster from Railcam.

 

Did anyone else notice that after the WCRC train set back to move out to the main line there was an announcement that it would stop in the main line station to pick up any remaining passengers, has that happened before ?. I doubt it.

Anyway from the return trip to Manchester under the station lights at Stone with the impressive North Staffs station building as a backdrop. Just a shame the light on the far platform wasn't working to cast a bit more light on the facade.