66005 'Maritime Intermodal One' leads the heavy 10.00 Dowlow to Theale 6V11 through Roade cutting conveying white limestone from the Peak District to west London. With the Maritime blue livery and rake of red DB branded MMA wagons, the scene is certainly a different one to the usual procession of Freightliner workings. Unfortunately, soon after this photograph was taken this train failed just south of Wolverton station blocking the up slow line. On any other day, this would have caused absolute chaos but with the emergency timetable in place, control was able to move trains from line to line pretty easily without too many delays. Later in the evening, the train was rescued by 66172 that hauled it to Bletchley. Later still it got on its way arriving a mere two hundred minutes late to Theale.
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