I have observed many freight workings passing here through Roade

cutting over the years but not one going quite as slowly as this! Watching its progress on OpenTrainTimes I was wondering if there was a software problem with the app. as it was taking an age for the 12.16 Lawley Street to London Gateway to progress from signal to signal. Eventually, it appeared around the corner in the distance making very laboured progress that I would estimate to be about twenty mph being led by Freightliner's 66599. The train was long, fully loaded and there is a steady rising gradient from Northampton but even so, a Class 66 should not make quite such a meal of it.