Saturday 25/10/08 - Hulme Hall VR Running Day
photo's copyright of Shaun C


VRs present

VEX291X and DPX685W - all the VRs owned by Hulme Hall Coaches.

VR Workings

- official timetable.

DPX685W
09.30 2 - Stockport-Hazel Grove Station
10.00 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
10.30 2 - Stockport-Hazel Grove Station
11.00 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
11.30 2 - Stockport-Hazel Grove Station
12.00 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Hazel Grove High School
12.50 2 - Hazel Grove High School-Hazel Grove Station
13.00 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport
13.30 2 - Stockport-Hazel Grove High School (replaced by VEX291X)
VEX291X
09.00 1 - Stockport Station-Hazel Grove Station
09.30 1 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
10.00 1 - Stockport Station-Hazel Grove Station
10.30 1 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
11.00 1 - Stockport Station-Hazel Grove Station
11.30 1 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
12.00 1 - Stockport Station-Hazel Grove Station
12.30 1 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
13.00 1 - Stockport Station-Hazel Grove High School
13.50 2 - Hazel Grove High School-Hazel Grove Station (replaced DPX685W)
14.00 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
14.30 2 - Stockport-Hazel Grove Station
15.00 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport Station
empty? Stockport Station-Hazel Grove High School
16.05 2 - Hazel Grove High School-Stockport Station
16.30 2 - Stockport Station-Hazel Grove Station
empty 2 - Hazel Grove Station-Hazel Grove High School
cancelled:
17.05 2 - Hazel Grove High School-Stockport Station
Olympian WDL692Y
11.45 3 - Stockport-Hazel Grove High School
12.05 3 - Hazel Grove High School-Stockport
12.30 3 - Stockport-Hazel Grove High School
13.20 3 - Hazel Grove High School-Hazel Grove Station
13.30 3 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport
14.00 3 - Stockport-Hazel Grove High School
14.20 1 - Hazel Grove High School-Hazel Grove Station (in place of DPX from here on)
15.00 1 - Stockport-Hazel Grove Station
15.30 1 - Hazel Grove Station-Stockport
16.00 1 - Stockport-Hazel Grove Station
empty 1 - Hazel Grove Station-Hazel Grove High School
16.35 1 - Hazel Grove High School-Stockport
17.00 1 - Stockport-Hazel Grove High School
17.20 1 - Hazel Grove High School-Stockport
DPX685W didn’t work anything else.
The 1520 School – Stockport (the end bit of turn 3) didn’t run either, DPX leaving empty for the depot a few minutes earlier than that.

Bristol VR Photography


DPX685W and VEX291X at Stockport shortly after 9am.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

VEX291X at the end of it's first trip of the day at 09.23 at Hazel Grove railway station, having run direct from Stockport.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

DPX685X heading to Hazel Grove station passes VEX291X heading to Stockport station, at Hazel Grove High School (where a model railway exhibition was being held) at 09.42.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

The alternative view of VEX and DPX. VEX291X has '2291' in small numbers above the off-side rear engine cover panel.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

VEX291X leaving, at 09.45.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

DPX685W.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

DPX685W after completing it's first journey at Hazel Grove at 09.53.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

DPX685W at Hazel Grove High School, 11.43. It was about to head to Hazel Grove station for the last time, it was replaced after working to Stockport by VEX291X, which in turn was replaced by an Olympian. At the last Hulme Hall running day in 2006, DPX685W was also replaced by the same Olympian.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08

VEX291X leaving Hazel Grove station at 12.27.
photo copyright of Shaun C, 25/10/08
Many thanks to Hulme Hall Coaches/ Hazel Grove & District Model Railway Society for organising the event, also Elliot Stuffins for an update on the workings.