Grid 56301 passes through Northampton's centre road leading the 07.44

Chaddesden to Wembley stone train, a move in association with HS2. As 56045 this Doncaster-built example entered service in the summer of 1978 and is seen here still wearing its now-defunct Fastline livery. It is a mainline registered preserved member of the class owned by the Class 56 Group on hire to spot hire company BARS (British American Railway Services). So as a forty-five-year-old locomotive heads south an even older one was approaching me from behind......