Having arrived with the 6K38 Longport to Basford Hall freight

composed of infrastructure wagons 56096 is seen running round its train, that can be seen in the background, at Stafford. The rather convoluted route was necessitated by the Longport facility to the south of Stoke-on-Trent having no north-facing access to the mainline that would have enabled a relatively easy trip to Crewe via the Alsager route