390049, VT 12.20 London Euston-Wolverhampton (9G12, 7L) & 221106, VT 11.28 Chester-London Euston (1A19, 1L), between Roade & Ashton
Virgin Trains pass between Roade and Ashton on the southern
WCML. 390049 'Virgin Express' heads north with the 12.20 Euston to Wolverhampton. It is passes 221106 'Willem Barents' forming the 1A19 11.28 Chester to Euston. Willem Barents was a Dutch navigator, cartographer and Arctic explorer who gave his name to the Arctic sea north of Russia and Scandinavia. The waether on Northamptonshire on this particular day was cold and bleak but not to the extent that Willem Barents will have experienced when he was stranded on the island of Novaya Zemlya for a year in 1597!