66514 heads the 08.50 Rugby (Long Lawford Junction) to Willesden

Junction HOBC ‘jumbo’ train through Roade cutting. This is an extraordinarily heavy and long train that would normally be far too much for a single Class 66 so another one usually works from the rear. However, on this particular occasion, 66563 still out of sight at the rear was turned off leaving 66514 doing all the work. It was almost at a walking pace here at Roade cutting at the top of an almost constant 1:200 climb from Northampton, a distance of some four miles.