323206 passes Victoria bridge just south of Northampton as the 5Z24 14.51 Wolverton Centre Sidings to Soho EMUD. This move follows the unit receiving attention at Wolverton works with another unit having arrived earlier in the day. I was not intending to see this particular train, being kept busy at home but I casually checked Open Train Times before I set off from Victoria bridge and spotted it sitting at the north release siding signal 1499 some six miles south of where I was so I decided to wait. It was supposed to have been routed via the fast line and the Weedon loop but in the event control released it just under an hour early onto the slow with it eventually arriving at its Birmingham base sixty-eight minutes early. Such is the nature of our dramatically cut down railway at the moment.
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