66572 Kingham 16 December 2015

A rare revenue earning freight train traversed the southern section of the Cotswold Line on 16 December 2015. After arriving light engine from Southampton earlier in the day, 66572 worked a train of freightliner flats and two bogie oil tanks from Long Marston to Ipswich. It is pictured passing underneath the new footbridge (not yet in use) at Kingham station, running 17 minutes early and in terrible light, with drizzle just starting to add to the general dreariness. Despite obviously starting from Long Marston, this was running as the 6L31 12:06 Honeybourne Sidings to Ipswich.