Trains at Swansea inc 57313+57601 31/5/24

Today I go to Swansea for around 3 or 4 maybe 5 hours because I had seen the Northern Belle train operated by West Coast Railways. I met up with ‎@Danthecool332 who also saw it here too. Our first train is a GWR class 80X which gave us 2 tones, and after we saw a few trains 197111 came in and a guy came up to us asking if we were trainspotters and obviously we said yes and asked if we had a YT channel so I said mine and he actually watched me, so I asked his and it was ‎@BootTS and I had seen his 66001 and 66143 video because I had recognised logo and we were talking about what we have achieved and other things about our channel on RUclips and I had texted ‎@PenguinTrains64 who said he would be there by 13:30 which luckily he came at that time. On Realtimetrains it said 57313+57601 were arriving on Platform 2 but a 197 was on it but departed so it came in and we finally had a tone of a class 57, 57313+57601 were the same locos I saw last year in December at Swansea. The engine was really loud and it was thrashy. shortly before the Northern Belle came in ‎@goingofftherails had joined us which was great, ‎@Danthecool332 really wanted to do the slam door on the MK3 but he couldn't because the driver looked a bit grumpy. The Northern Belle had come from Bristol Temple Meads and had done tge return at 14:13.
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31st May 2024

[@SionsTrainVideos]

very good video the northern belle was great to see which just about fits in swansea lol, nice tones you saw lots of IETS some was cancelled today which is odd. lol 197113 took me home from bridgend via landore and i went in first class coz there not making them first class until they use 197s for a while coz there still getting delivered

[@MrMaguireLovesTrains]

Thanks Sion! Yeah I was so happy to see it, I couldn't believe there was 5 of us, my friend Mike also known as Boot ts trains he says he met you, Tamzin also known as Going Off The Rails, Dan also known as Dan's Gaming And Vlogs and my friend Macsen also known as PenguinTrains64 who is also a big fan of you. Yeah tge last time I saw it at Swansea it was behind the fence but today it was infront, yeah some IETs were delayed because of shortage of train crew I think, when I went on the Landore path I saw new bogie and new roof looked to be apart of 197, yeah I want to go in the first class of it, I have watched your video earlier but I was really tired so I thought I would comment tommorow but I think I might tonight imstead

[@BootTS]

It’s nice seeing you earlier today in Swansea!

[@MrMaguireLovesTrains]

Yeah it was nice seeing you too mate!

[@MrMaguireLovesTrains]

Yeah it was nice seeing you too mate!