I had been watching the progress of this working since

it left Manchester's Newton Heath depot earlier in the morning half suspecting it to catch me out by travelling on the up fast instead of going via the Northampton loop as it was scheduled. Indeed, I surmised correctly and nipped out smartish as soon as I realised what was going on to capture it passing through Roade cutting. Northern's 156464 was making its way to Wolverton Works for some scheduled attention running as 5J70.