This working must be up there as one of the most unusual so far of the year on my 'home' section of track. Due to the further closure of the GW route around Oxford for enhancement work and preparations for the re-building of the station diversions were again in place for freight. There are irregular workings from the MoD depot at Kineton to Marchwood on the Solent that usually go via Oxford, Didcot and Reading which are handled by GBRf. The lengthy diversions find the 13.50 ex Kineton running as 3F01 passing through Roade cutting led by 66792 'Collaboration'. Note the interesting symmetrical formation with what appears to be a pair of non-articulated Cargowagons acting as barriers which makes one wonder what is in the four containers.
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