Mike and I had been tracking the progress of the

6M41 11.52 Margam to Round Oak coiled steel train since it approached Gloucester some thirty-five miles south of us here at Croome Perry Wood. Luckily, it made reasonable progress and it continues north with 66093 leading the train. Notice that the late afternoon sun is just beginning to illuminate the front of the locomotive, given another thirty minutes and it would have been fully on the front indicating that this section of the Midland route to Birmingham is going more northwesterly than north.