To round off a remarkable half-hour of activity, on its first day back in traffic (and still in reverse formation following its storage at Doncaster Belmont) 91106 passes East Ardsley from the opposite direction shortly afterwards with 1A30 1245 Leeds - Kings Cross (14/05/2021)
68011 awaits departure from Birmingham Moor Street on the rear of 1H45 1513 to London Marylebone. The service was booked for a loco-hauled set today in connection with the FA Cup Final which was taking place at Wembley (15/05/2021)
There were was a gap of an hour between the departure of the '47s' on 1Z88 and the arrival of a raft of trains I'd decided to hang around for as it was such a pleasant morning. What happened next was perhaps entirely predictable - almost as though the clouds had been lying in wait for an ambush! 5Z68 0618 Crewe Basford Hall - Gascoigne Wood Sidings passes the site of Goose Hill Junction with the DVT leading and 68019 on the rear (19/05/2021)
