37800, 323221, 323211 & 323214, 13.05 Wolverton Centre Sidings-Long Marston (5Q95, 39L), site of Roade station
This train was worth keeping an eye on and leaving
my lunch steaming on the kitchen table for! Leaving from Wolverton Works being only a few miles south of Roade gives little warning of its departure so when the reporting number appears on RTT it's time to get on the bike and nip down to the track! 37800 'Cassiopeia' leads a colourful ensemble composed of celebrity retro. Regional railways liveried 323221 followed by 323211 and 323214 running as the 5Q95 13.05 Wolverton Works to Long Marston. With the ending of Class 323 operations throughout the West Midlands a few months ago some units headed north to Northern whilst others went to Wolverton for various works and are now heading off to storage and a very uncertain future. Being extremely reliable units, there has been some interest in future use, but they are now thirty years old!