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Under the watchful eye of an enthusiast a cross-country, in

the strictest sense of the term, six-car DMU made up of two three-car Swindon-built Class 120 units approaches Leicester station, one of the more important stops on the long, regular, journey across middle England from Lincoln to Birmingham in 1973. This journey involved a trip via Newark Castle, Nottingham and Trent Junction before Leicester. Onwards the trip continued via Nuneaton before the run into Birmingham. On the left, traditionally acting as yard pilot, as they were designed to do, a BR 350hp Class 08 shunter that was a Leicester asset all its life, number 3786 (later 08619), trundles a box-van towards others as it makes up a fitted van train for onward transit.