66737 'Lesia' passes Victoria bridge just south of Roade with the returning 13.15 Milton Keynes to Bescot engineering train that actually started from Bletchley with the 66 running round after initially heading south. 66737 is named 'Lesia' after the wife of GBRf's MD John Smith. Eagle-eyed spotters will notice the extra large 37 in the number. Apparently, the explanation of this is that in the Smith household there is a running joke that Mrs. Smith always claims to be thirty-seven when asked her age. So to maintain this her husband chose one of his locomotives to continue the joke; a nice story if it's true!
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