Running extremely late having left DIRFT well over two hours

after it should have done the driver of 88003 ‘Genesis’ will have the power handle pulled back eager to make up some lost time. Indeed, the speed that the fully loaded (apart from a few spaces at the front) 4L48 Tesco Express from DIRFT to Tilbury docks made it from Northampton to this spot at Victoria bridge a few miles south was remarkable; I would suggest that it was twice as quick as a Class 66 would do it on the steady rising gradient all the way. 88003 was a photographic cop, they are never particularly common south of DIRFT as they are to the north.