Passing Pendolinos at Ledburn on 25 November 2016. 390124 heads north with the 9G23 13:23 Euston to Birmingham New Street Virgin Trains service, passing 390114 heading in the opposite direction with the 1B46 12:50 Birmingham New Street to Euston. Just where the line disappears from view is the site of Sears Crossing, where a gang of robbers stopped the up TPO in the early hours of 8 August 1963, in what has become known as the Great Train Robbery. |