With the heat really building 66418 'Patriot - In Memory of Fallen Railway Employees' climbs through Roade cutting leading the very late running 4L41 04.59 Trafford Park to Felixstowe Freightliner. With the temperature already in the mid-thirties, the crew in Class 66s would really be struggling as the cabs have no air conditioning. I suspect that this would be tolerable when the train was in motion but when forced to stop would become extremely uncomfortable. This particular service was probably heat affected as it was already extremely late here at Roade usually passing about before 09.00 (with it now being 10.30) and was terminated on arrival in London at Willesden.
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