A last set from Saturday, with a couple of hours at the GCR.

Here BR Standard Class 5 73156 slows for the Swithland stop with the 13.00 Dining train, running somewhat late.

Not a good day for steam photography really, being the warmest of the year so far!

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It's pretty surreal standing here with a housing estate just to the left, when for so many years it was a field!

However the shot still works, seen here with the 15.30 Loughborough - Leicester around 30 minutes behind schedule. I presume D5185 was tagged onto the back to try to catch up time at Leicester, saving the running round.

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I'd hoped this would be the recently arrived green 37, but sadly not, however the 25 looks good on the 14.00 Loughborough - Leicester.

The hawthorn blossom around here was quite magnificent.

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