After a bit of a wait, the driver of 66145 gets the road and he powers up and departs for Tees Yard.
Royal Mail owned class 325 units 325004, 325001 and 325015 depart Carlisle with 1M44 1531 Shieldmuir to Warrington RMT. These trains are worked by GBRf and convey mainly bagged second class mail.
A well loaded and lengthy intermodal train runs into platform 1 with DRS doyen class 66 loco, 66401, in charge of 4S44 1212 Daventry to Coatbridge.