Our multies ran between New Brighton, Chester Northgate and Wrexham. The comparable service today to North Wales over the former GCR lines crosses the Wirral from the south only as far as Bidston, where there is an interchange with the Merseyrail electrics. We took the local multies a few times from New Brighton. Their only advantage as far as we were concerned was that if you got in the end that was not first class you could see the numbers of steam locomotives approaching without having to stick your head out of the window and risking a full-frontal lobotomy. For example, on 16/5/64, I went to Caergwrle and back for a walk up to the castle site with friends and was able to spot 92114, 5667 and 9608 from the train with unusual ease. John Dyer photographed his examples in 1962, at Shotton, Wrexham Exchange and passing Harrison Park in Wallasey.
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