66551 Shorthampton 10 February 2013

66551 passes Shorthampton in the pouring rain on 10 February 2013 with the 6Y12 10:00 Abbotswood to Hinksey ballast, returning from an earlier engineering possession. Whilst a Freightliner Class 66 is certainly unusual on the Cotswold Line, the real of highlight of the day was to have been 60010 coming from the opposite direction within ten minutes of this train, with the 6W97 08:45 Toton to Bescot long welded rails. Unfortunately this only got as far as Hinksey Yard!