The concrete brutalist structure of Euston must make it one of the ugliest and most austere stations on the network. Yet, despite its size the platforms, in places such as this are surprisingly narrow not that many trains extend this far out of the darkness and into the most welcome daylight. To the left Virgin's 16.00 'fast' to Birmingham New Street will leave in just over half an hour worked by 390040. Meanwhile, London Midland's 350242 will also work to Birmingham as the 15.34 departure. However, despite the Desiro leaving twenty-five minutes before the Pendolino, it will arrive over an hour later as it stops at many stations and takes the Northampton route. My wife, son and I took the 'slow' train as far as Milton Keynes.
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