Just catching some early morning September sunshine as it emerges from Roade cutting the 04.57 Trafford Park to Ipswich SS is seen hauled by Freightliner 90005 and 90042. The train is on the up fast line thus avoiding Northampton due to this day being another in a long line of strike days blighting our beleaguered railways; come along unions and employers, talk for goodness sake. The train will run to Ipswich using AC power to then be hauled down to Felixstowe probably by a Class 66. As an aside, can anybody out there please tell me what the SS stands for as in Ipswich SS?
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