A second 'grab' photograph of the 11.52 King's Norton to Bletchley (via much of the Midlands!) RHTT passes just south of Roade. As can be seen, the full length of the train almost fits in the gap but any further left and it would have been in complete shade! Leading the 3JO1 is 66701 with 66752 'The Hoosier State' bringing up the rear. The latter locomotive is one of the initial batch of twenty-one ordered by GBRf that arrived on UK soil ten years ago. Unusually, this example was named before it left EMD’s Muncie facility in the USA for UK soil.
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