66731 is seen leading tatty looking and graffiti ravaged former coal wagons now converted to carry stone and ballast past Wellingborough's Harrowden Junction. The 15.52 Radlett to East Usk Yard 6V54 (thanks to Mike for the reporting number) is commonly known in this area by enthusiasts as the Redlands and is a pretty dependable working. As can be seen here it is on the down fast where it will stay until it curves away from the slow lines at Kettering North Junction. I suspect that if a full timetable was in operation rather than the COVID induced seventy-five per cent version that this train would have progressed along the slow line from its start point at Radlett as far as here, the last place that it could move to the fast before the lines split.
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