A badly smoking diesel locomotive is not a good look

for a modern railway seemingly to trash its environmental credentials. Many of the earlier Class 66s, that are now well over twenty years old, appear to suffer from the malaise of excessive exhaust emissions and 66200, seen here, appears to be one of them. It is seen leading the 05.06 4E94 Southampton to Masborough intermodal working. The rural scene is in the southwestern corner of Staffordshire at the delightfully named Willow Bottom Lane bridge near the village of Harlaston