40168 breaks the silence of the early hours as it thunders through a misty Penrith station with 5S50 Carlisle Upperby to Preston ECS working. It is then caught again passing through Lancaster whilst an unidentified class 45 stands in the platform with a northbound newspaper train.
97407 (ex40012) "Aureol" has been the focus of some attention with the paintbrush in the final months of her career after completing the re-modelling work at Crewe for which she was brought into the departmental pool. Here she heads a short empty ballast service to Shap Quarry past Morcombe Bay in the evening summer sunshine before then being looped at Tebay to allow other services to pass before making the way into the sidings at Shap.
