Walking along the northern bank of Northampton's Delapree Lake one

walks parallel with the course of the former L&NWR route that would then head northeast along the Nene Valley to Wellingborough and beyond. For the vast majority of this section next to the lake, the tracks are still in situ if being completely taken over by nature having not seen any traffic for a number of decades. In this view looking back towards Northampton and Hardingstone Junction, the remnants of a modern-day resident exist in the form of a makeshift shelter for some poor homeless sole with items of clothing strewn around the spot; a sad sight in so many ways and a sad inditement of the world that we live in.