It is clear from the mess on the front of 168324 that some large and unfortunate creature has met its death but in doing so inflicted some considerable damage to the front of the cab with a badly broken secondman's windscreen. The 14.55 Moor Street to Marylebone service was running almost to time as far as Hatton where it suddenly lost a lot of minutes. I suspect that after the incident, the driver inspected the damage, contacted control and then proceeded at a reduced speed to London where it arrived nearly half an hour late. Unfortunately for the passengers, it was absolutely packed due to the closure of the WCML with Chiltern accepting Virgin and London Northwestern tickets from Birmingham.
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