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"Rick Hughes" <rjh@talk21.com> wrote in message
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> "Jim Hawkins" <jimhawkins@manx.net> wrote in
> news:sKWdnf_IY5FzGh7VnZ2dnUVZ8gOdnZ2d@.co m:
>
>>
>> I assure you I did NOT change. I caught the train at Salford Crescent
>> at precisely 17:48 and took no further interest in it until I realised
>> it was taking rather a long time to get to Manchester Airport, and
>> then discovered it was going to Liverpool.
>> The only thing I can think of as a possibility is that it wasn't the
>> 17:48 to Manchester Airport, but some other train running late or
>> early. I only had a few seconds to scan the arrivals board at Salford
>> Crescent, and may conceivably have misread it.
>> But no, I did not change that train.
>
> You mean "departures board" I presume? ICBW, but I don't think there is an
> arrivals board at SLD.
>
> But you stated at the beginning that your train was a 185, which the TPX
> airport train would have been. The Northern train to Wigan (-Liverpool)
> would have been something other than "a very comfortable 185".
>
> Rick.
>
No.
The Salford Crescent train I caught was a sprinter.
The train I returned from Lime St on was a 185
Jim Hawkins |