Caption:
Compared to some of shots and locations in this book
this should almost have the title ‘Brave New World’ as an up WCML Inter City express on the left, which may be a semi-fast working as it is not formed fully of air-conditioned Mk2d stock, meets a down example with this consist as the latter approaches Preston station from the south. Almost an abstract picture perhaps? There is possibly a feeling of it being the basis of a Terence Cuneo ‘The Railway of the Future’ painting.