With the staff training and test runs over Orion Logistics

have started operating services on the WCML. However, I am not at all sure how much freight is actually being carried but it is good to see at least some coming off the roads as a result of new flows on the railways. I was under the impression that the former Thameslink units that have been prepared for Orion at Long Marston were to be running under their own AC power all the way but it appears that this is not the case with veteran Class 47 now running as 57212 hauling the train. The 05.35 Sheildnuir to Willesden Park Royal is seen passing through Roade from the village's Hyde Road bridge with 768001 and 319373 making up the stock.