A lovely sunny and warm morning for the first leg of my journey. The above took me to Derby via Stoke on Trent. It was a pleasant journey, but as it was only one coach, it was pretty full. I had a short wait at Derby, before my next train took me on the short journey to Nottingham.
At Nottingham I had the chance for a coffee before boarding my East Midlands train to Lincoln via Newark. This was new route for me and a pleasant one. There quite a few stations between Nottingham and Newark, but my train was non stop. I was hoping the take a photo of the flat crossing where my route crossed the East Coast Main line but I missed it!.
On arrival at Lincoln station I had over an hours wait for my connection to Peterborough. Lincoln is a rather pleasant station, but there was no cafe, so I had to go to a nearby Gregg’s for a snack. To my surprise there were more trains than I thought there would be. After the hour was up, I caught the train to Peterborough. Again it was only one coach. It called at Sleaford and Spalding. As I anticipated, it was rather flat! but looked looked good in the splendid weather.
From Peterborough I was booked on the 15.10 to London Kings Cross. This was meant to be a Class 91 but as the photo will show it was an East Midlands HST on loan to Virgin East Coast. It had a different seat configuration so my reserve seat didn’t exist. What is more the train was packed so I had to stand all the way to London.
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