With a toot from the driver, the 09.47 Bedford to

Bletchley service is seen accelerating away from Lidlington station worked by veteran DMU 150141. I am standing on the railings of a foot crossing that will no doubt be closed soon as NR continues with its obsessive plan to rid its network of any points of access. If the East West Rail programme is ever to be extended eastwards from Bletchley (but now looking increasingly unlikely under the new Labour Government's plans) then this section of line will become a hundred-mile-per-hour mainline.