Avoiding the sun by a few hundred metres, 70007 leads

the diverted 09.36 Crewe Basford Hall to Southampton Freightliner service past Victoria bridge just south of Roade. By the end of the month, the number of these noisy and brash Class 70s passing on this route will drop significantly as they revert to their normal route via Banbury, Oxford and Didcot with the re-opening of the Nuneham bridge.