Catching the low morning sun, 86632 and 86639 round the curve at Old Linslade with a Coatbridge to Felixstowe container train.

This daily Carlisle-Edinburgh infrastructure train was the only freight to Edinburgh's Millerhill Yard to utilise electric traction. It has since reverted to the ubiquitous EMD class 66.

Freightliner's small fleet of 1965-built class 86s still clock up high mileages on intermodal trains on the West Coast Main Line, like this southbound Crewe-bound train leaving Carstairs.