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Depends. If at any point you pushed your bike across a stop line (when the light was red) then it's an unresolved question as to whether you committed an offence.
The offence is to "Propel a vehicle" (vehicle includes bicycles) over a stop line whilst the light is red. The debated bit is whether "propel" includes pushing a bicycle whilst dismounted. A prominent cycling QC believes it would apply, plenty of other people disagree. He also believes that carrying it does not constitute "propelling" it. The only way this will ever be resolved is if someone gets an FPN for it and challenges it in court. Up until then it's all conjecture.
If you picked your bike up and carried it onto the pavement (or footway for the proper legal term), and pushed it past the stop line on the pavement whilst the light was red and then crossed at the crossing then it's even trickier, and no-one really knows.
Before anyone quotes the "Crank vs Brooks" case, that's something different and to do with whether you are classed as a "foot passenger" whilst pushing a bicycle across a crossing from one side to the other (you are thanks to this case) and therefore cars are required to accord precedence to you as a foot passenger. The red-light/propel question above concerns what happens before you got the crossing, i.e. whether pushing a bicycle across a stop line (at a red light) is considered "propelling a vehicle", and the outcome of Crank vs Brooks has no bearing on this.
No-one said it was interesting...