This is a train that passes along the southern section

of the WCML most weekdays but it is one that I have very few photographs of as it usually passes in the dark. However, today it is running some ninety minutes late so a photograph can be captured. 90039 'Johann Strauss' leads the 6S94 03.06 Dollands Moor to Irvine china clay slurry train. This is a very heavy train often weighing in towards two thousand tonnes meaning that only the power of a Class 92 is able to haul it over the torturous gradients of Cumbria. If one is unavailable, it has to be a pair of Class 66s, but this is not common. The train is seen approaching Roade from Victoria bridge.