43087 passes Billingham on 12 April 1998 with the diverted 1E08 09:50 Aberdeen to Kings Cross 'Northern Lights' GNER service. Sunday engineering works had closed part of the East Coast Mainline, and trains were being diverted along the circuitous coastal route via Sunderland and Hartlepool. Billingham station, which has a single short island platform, can just be glimpsed on the other side of the road bridge.