An unusual working on the southern WCML is the 4O29 08.15 Crewe Basford Hall to Southampton Freightliner, on this day hauled by 70019 doing its best to shatter the peace and quiet of the Northamptonshire countryside. The reason for the diversion was the closure of the Chiltern line that this service would normally have taken from Birmingham to Oxford. The closure was because of a major landslip in Harbury cutting that closed the mainline between Leamington and Banbury for some weeks.
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