Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post

A hidden benefit was the excellent view of the Derby-Birmingham rail line, and the site of a class 60 pulling 32 102.6 ton tankers (which I believe were loaded as it was heading north away from the Kingsbury oil depot). It's the heaviest train I've ever seen, and the equivalent to 100 lorry tankers.
Ah, but on Saturday I travelled on the rail line the other side of the Arboretum, from Birmingham to Derby via Lichfield, due to the line at Water Orton being closed for engineering works (presumably for HS2). Very slow, following a stopping train. Then at Derby a mad dash with my bicycle across the bridge from platform 1 to platform 6, with hordes of football supporters coming the other way. Fortunately the train to Loughborough was running 4 minutes late.