With the sun now out from behind some threatening cloud behind me this image looks totally different to the previous one taken in exactly the same spot on the platform end of Loughborough's GCR station. 55009 'Alycidon' (still masquerading as 55013 'The Black Watch') is running round the station having just been started up in readiness to work the short distance south to Quorn and Woodhouse conveying DPS members to their AGM. The last time I saw and photographed Number 9 things were very different with it having disgraced itself on our returning railtour from Scarborough, see....
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