2. Around Fairwood Junction-07.05.21

Revisiting another of my old haunts found me around Fairwood Junction just to the west of Westbury. I cannot remember the last time I was actually at the junction but it is getting on for forty years ago! It was interesting that I noticed what I believed to be the beginning of the Class 800 Azuma/IET debacle unfolding as all up trains were suddenly passing at a reduced speed and all arriving late by about the same amount of time. I wondered if the cracking issue has been identified and that instructions were passed to drivers via their GSMR 'phones with them being told to reduce speed. This was, of course, about ten hours prior to all the sets being taken ignominiously out of service and it being splashed across the media; what a shambles!