390042, VT 07.23 London Euston-Birmingham New Street (9G05, 1L), Blisworth
A particularly dull and overcast morning did not dent my
need to get out and see an '86' out on the mainline! Control let a sequence of three down Pendolinos pass it before giving it the road with the veteran electric and its train kept waiting a Hanslope Junction some seven miles south of this spot. The second of the priority workings is 390042 on the 07.28 Euston to Birmingham.