43257 brings up the rear of the 11.59 Crewe Pottery Sidings to Derby RTC NMT train that takes a convoluted route around most of the Midlands to reach here just south of Roade on the WCML. 43257 is an interesting power car being one of the pair that made up ECML pioneer set 254001 that entered service in 1977. Now wearing its Colas livery it will, on another day, be hauling a test train on the very tracks that it first operated on nearly fifty years ago.
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