As the sun puts in a welcome but half-hearted appearance

on this very cold and windy afternoon 66522 climbs away from Northampton crossing Kingsthorpe Brook leading the ridiculously lightly loaded 4M58 09.14 Southampton to Garston Freightliner service. In fact, seven articulated lorries could have carried the entire contents of this train up the A34, the M40 and the M6 such was the dearth of boxes on-board! Above the train, having just taken off from nearby Sywell Aerodrome, is a charter operated Agusta-Westland AW169 helicopter with the call sign G-GETU that was making the relatively short trip to Bedford.