Due to this Saturday being another blighted by industrial action
caused by both the employers and the unions not being capable of putting their heads together and thrash out some sort of agreement the fast lines of the WCML were put to other uses! The 6G55 12.23 Bescot Yard to Wolverton engineers' train passes through Roade cutting on the up fast line led by 66725 'Sunderland'. Despite leaving Bescot Yard over an hour after the previous infrastructure working it is now passing this same spot less than ten minutes after it such is the time saved by going on the fast via Weedon rather than the slow through Northampton.