With what has been a dry and above-average temperature spring

and early summer the wheat fields in the background are already beginning to turn to a more golden colour that may well herald and slightly earlier harvest next month. In the foreground London Midland's 350234 and 350240 work the 18.26 Northampton to Euston service. The delightfully bucolic and typically English scene is just south of Roade in Northamptonshire.