With the station lights now illuminated and the sun is

doing its best to give a little additional very late additional light at Leamington Spa it must be getting late. 220009 accelerates rapidly away from the station with the 13.47 Southampton Central to Edinburgh Waverley. This 1S52 Crosscountry service traverses the length of England from the south coast to the Scottish capital, a journey of four hundred and sixty-eight miles, and should arrive at 21.30, on this day it was some eleven minutes late.