The ROG/DATS MML overhead line inspection train makes its second run south during the evening as the 3Q60 19.26 Kettering to Bedford. The train is led again by 47813 'Jack Frost' with ex GA DVT 82136 tucked in behind followed by, further down the consist, 90035, 91128 'Intercity 50' and 57310 'Pride of Cumbria' at the rear. By now this test train was twenty minutes late here at Irchester and with the light so absolutely dire I decided not to wait for its final return run. The rest of the photographers at this spot made the same decision and we trudged back across the fields, past the allotments, to our parked cars. Let's hope for some better weather when this amazing train runs again!
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