A superb scene taken from Leicester's Sparkenhoe Road bridge sees

45057 bring a train of loaded coal wagons slowly towards the station from the north. Peak 45057 is an interesting member of the class as it had different nose cone types. The end facing the camera here is the twin marker light type that had replaced a single headcode panel. However, at the other end facing the coal wagons, it had split headcode boxes that it kept, I believe until its demise in January 1985 returning here to Leicester to be cut up at Vic Berry's scrapyard just south of the station. In the background is Leicester North signal box and beyond the diesel depot (LR). After being downgraded to carriage stabling it is now home to the fast-growing rail procurement company UKRL. All of the buildings to the left have now been demolished and have given way to a variety of retailing establishments on the St. George's retail park.