If the timetable is all going to plan with a good service operating, between 17.30 and 18.15 around my home village of Roade on the WCML there are four freights that pass in very close succession (three up and one down). The 4L92 14.03 Ditton to Felixstowe passes the site of the village's former station with 66594 'NYK Spirit of Kyoto' leading. In common with a lot of freight at the moment, there was a lot of fresh air being carried along behind the locomotive. In fact, it has just been reported that freight levels have haemorrhaged away as a result of the COVID-19 crisis.
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