102. A flat & a squirt-17.10.20

I had been monitoring the progress of a Tyseley to Ilford unit move and popped out from home when it reached Northampton. Assuming that it was a West Midlands Railway going to Essex for attention to its wheelsets I was not wrong! I could hear it coming before it came into view with a very severe flat banging along the up slow line. I continued my walk reaching Victoria bridge to coincide with the passage of a railhead treatment train. Unfortunately, the water jets were not in operation on this section of its convoluted journey around the Midlands.