The Gathurst - Arpley Speedlink can drop an interesting mix of traction, it depends on what SP has to hand, a lot of the time it drops a 25, even a 40 in their final years but can occasionally drop a single Chopper like in this case, 20193 passing the site of the long gone Bamfurlong Station. I was wandering back to my loco and decided to snap a shot of 47377 on the bridge coming out of Walton Old Sidings with an MGR bound for Yorkshire. Sometimes it's ok for a Top Link driver to slum it, I'd just stabled 47374 at Bamfurlong Sidings having coupled up to a rake of hoppers. We had a half hour fester before heading out for the possession down Newton Cut. I'd taken Petrolea off SP and was followed by 47366 running ten minutes behind. We'd both had the foresight to nip to the chippy on the corner of Taylors lane and grab some fish & chips for the wait, already got extra food with me for later and the long slog of sitting in the cab all night while P-way do their thing... 86420 Races through Acton Bridge with a Glasgow/Edinburgh - Poole service.
Sometimes there is beauty in the everyday, I was doing a bit of overtime and ended up getting sent down to Crewe to work one of the station pilots (talk about punishment) and had just stabled a rake of Mk2 coffins, walking back to my steed it just seemed to catch the evening light just right, even on the shadow side, so I grabbed the trusty Zenit and took a shot.
