With its recently applied paint shining well, London Northwestern's 350104 waits at Euston to leave with the 13.15 to Rugeley Trent Valley and Crewe with the train splitting on arrival at Birmingham New Street. My wife and I took this service back home to Northampton where, unfortunately, it was cancelled. The guard announced that the cause of this cancellation was due to a broken down train between Northampton and Rugby meaning that the train crew were unable to take the train on. Whilst in BR days trains broke down all too frequently, the knock-on results of a failure were far less due to them having far greater levels of flexibility over things such as 'train crews being in the wrong place'.
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