Again, as per the earlier DRS light engine move, this

14.14 Hemel Hempsted tamper move was making rapid progress largely due to the many cancelled passenger services resulting from COVID-19 staff absence and another haemorrhaging of passenger numbers. Colas operated Plasser and Theurer 08-4x4/4S-RT Tamper climbs away from Northampton at Wilson's Crossing. I suspect that the driver was delighted that his progress remained so good arriving over an hour early at Preston meaning that he could get home and spend the last evening of the year in some form of celebration.