The oilseed rape just going over it's over a month

after it should have been harvested! Such are the problems and risks taken by farmers growing the crop now following the banning of neonicotinoids that combat the cabbage stem flea beetle that can decimate the crop in its early stages of growth. I suspect that the days of the bright yellow field in spring acting as dramatic backdrops to railway photographs are now getting extremely rare but here is one showing 66643 approaching Roade from the south leading the 02.57 Felixstowe to Garston Freightliner service.