Is This The BEST Spot On The WCML? | Two Nights at Acton Bridge | Diggle Junction Special 

Acton bridge in my opinion is the best spot, they should rename it to action bridge haha

7:32 I had no idea they converted a 321 to carry parcels until I saw this video I like that they still use open flatbeds to carry automobiles. 11:40 a Transpennine 68 on a freight train. Something I didn't expect to see for a few years 14:44 now that's some serious power you would see in America, not Britian

Photo bombed twice! And it ain't Diggle without a Drax, great content again thanks.👍

Absolutely awesome video my friend. It was a pleasure to watch for this freight mad girl 😊

very good duncan

Just brilliant. Can't say much more than that so thanks for sharing 👍

Never set foot on Acton Bridge but I use to pass through it loads of times as I lived in Oxford and my girlfriend in Liverpool.3 platforms and from a rail replacement bus going through it once I noted what would have been a ticket office at the top which is presumably either disused or pressed into service as something else.I never saw many folk get on/off there.Would have passed through it on the sleeper too to various Scottish places and Carlisle with 86,90 and 92 haulage and I think a 57 dragging a Sir Richard Branson train to Liverpool once due to a diversion which I think was via Manchester.

Those HST's hauling new stock,what a coup to capture on film,bet you wet your plants!

Wow! Great Video.

Great catches and video

Some good stuff!

Nice variety whilst Diggle is closed. Should there be a competition for drivers and their tunes?😂 loved the Class 56!

Great video mate👍

Good to see you're still out looking getting some great shots, tempting me into going there or Crewe myself.

Thanks a lot another really enjoyable video, keep em coming. Great day at Doncaster 13/4 best ever day there for me, I might start going every Thursday now.

What a great variety, a lot of flat tyres in that lot and it was good to get some tunes from some of the drivers!

Another great video I really enjoy them and look forward to every one

Very enjoyable, very well presented especially with the informative text left showing long enough to be able read all of it!

Some excellent variety there, mate. Rail Adventure and the 56 the main highlights. Just found your channel and going through your other vids. Top notch stuff. Subbed.

Great stuff!! I enjoy all your content, wherever it's from!!

Another nice one Luke, thanks for doing it.

You don’t need a cute village and a tunnel for awesome train action!

Great video @Diggle Junction(Luke)🙂👍

Cheers fella great vid as ever .👏👏👏👏

Great captures, thanks for sharing. Ben.

Cheers fr the great variety of rollingstock!! (New Aussie subscriber!)

Great watch. Acton Bridge is always a good afternoon or evening. Love it there. Debating on buying a recorder in the next month or so. Which do you use to film with? Cheers.

Those MerseyRail 777s are actually Tyne & Wear metro 555s

Another great effort 👍🏻

Hey,new sub here. I'm not really a train geek but do love to see them,I find it so eerie to see empty rail wagons belting past I used to always stand and wave at the royal mail train early 2000's as it went through redruth,I love how they still transport new cars from dagenham by rail

Great video, thank you.

Superb video and some great action. Nice to see it from the lineside. One point of note, the 56 wasn't 56076 as that's long been scrapped!! You probably mean 56078. Keep up the great work and I'll keep an eye out for you,from the cab! 👍🏻

Great video! I subscribed

Great traction there and superb videoing

Excellent video! 👍

excellent 👏👏👏

Looking forward to seeing (and using) the new class 555s that are now waiting to be rolled out here in the North East. 👍

amazing video buddy

There are stations on the WCML south of Crewe that get more freight but I like Acton Bridge for its quieter location. It probably gets more freight than any other station in the north west of england I think

East lancs railway Diesel Roster looking brilliant next sunday and all year

Hello, nice video 😊

great vid pal

Nice video. Not too many people do trainspotting at night; I appreciate you taking time for this. I also like how you provided information about each train. Could you by chance, walk me through that?

Loved it, especially the 56. Not far fro here based in Stockport.

66 after 66 after 66 after 66 after 66 and oh look, there's a 60😂(which look nicer imo) the 43s with buffer beams was a first for me and I loved the speedy Grid💪🏼

in day 2 the kid waving off of the bridge was me! 🤣🤣

08:27 Wonder if they're all Postman Pat vans on delivery?

Impressive selection of freight traffic there. 👍Such a shame there's so little lecky haulage under the wires, intermodals especially given their origins and destinations.

Still nothing better than a class 87 with 7 on . Either Lime St or Preston. But preferably London.😊😊😊

14:49 in this video... An insult to the iconic Class 43 ... These were NEVER designed to be used as freight trains. They were designed as high-speed passenger trains to run on non-electrified lines. When these first entered service in 1976 they were light-years ahead of their time. Better than being scrapped I supposed... At least they are still "Working"

I have been to Acton bridge a few times, and always miss the car train

Where do you get the head codes for the trains ?

I saw the grey HST in Wolverhampton which was confusing because the HST doesn’t run through the West Midlands

Great video at a great location. I'm surprised I havent come across your channel and videos before. Well I will be now. Like and subscribe from me and I have clicked that bell so I don't miss any of your great footage 👍🏻

may be a daft question but how do you know what route the trains are running

another great video Luke looks like a great spot for trains looking forward to the return of more of diggle but stalybridge has been closed again this weekend keep up the fab content

1:50 and some serious platform gap, I mean that’s a chasm.

Excellent entertainment. Thank you.

Might be the "Best" but not the busier or even popular as many others are for sure on the entire WCML. Although i would rather agree it is the busiest train spot in the whole Northwest section of the WCML out of Crewe Basford Hall Jn, this one that i class as already North/Midlands boundary hence not counting for my list. Acton Bridge in the 13 years i am living in UK has seen incresing traffic due to Cross Country biomass flows that when loaded for some reason only run via this area but via Manchester on empty runs althou very rarely loaded perhaps due to Miles Plating steep incline likewise DB refuse trains do the same twice a day on its way to Teeside. To mention Freightliner refuse trains that once loaded in Greater Manchester area to Scunthorpe landfill and soon after started operating to Runcorn are an extra as well. Remember BM limestone train return empty late night to Peak District when out of ICI, but now this one overnights at Arpley to make that move next morning and is indeed another extra to Acton Bridge, making it more interesting rahter popular , providing that peculiar mix of safety feeling out of urban crowds and criminal activity along to real Cheshire provincial nature. This two combined make this area a fantastic spot that i never explored out of the station itself. Thank you for sharing your fantastic captures and put Action Bridge on the map of remote and forgotten train spots in UK.

It must be my age, when I try and video a train, I never catch the numbers, ( ex steam fireman/driver)🚂🚂🚂

It's Crewe best place for me

Such a shame you did not get the nuclear magnox flasks to Crewe that use to run aroun that night time but as required basis. Not really a fun of lineside spotting specially on quadruple track layout where is very easy to miss movements crossing each other same or different directions thata are less common in Action Bridge compared to South of Crewe. I prefere stand on bridges despite the horrible cage effect caused by OLE gantries on both superior and lateral views. WCML is such a problem for those looking for long views from bridges in order to not miss a movement specially after wating for a specific one, but...modern electrification is the future.

321334 starting a new life?

The class 56 is 56078 and not 56076 as noted on your caption

i wander how much the total value of the car train was worth probably £10-15 million pounds fella

777s?

It can't be 9000 hp they're not multimedia at nose end , unless there's two drivers!

Nice set of class 43 power cars but I can't understand why they need all that power its like having two deltics pulling a few dmu/emu's and a few freight waggons! madness! and A waste of fuel i liked the colas grid steaming it good video 🥰🤩😍

hello

Who was Alan Gaskell?

9000hp, that's nine bugatti's. Andrew Tate will be weeping in his sleep.

1:40 Those things run from the Incinerator by me at Weston. No idea what the carry like