It is 00:25 and class 81 ('AL1') 81018 stands at Crewe heading the London Euston to Inverness 'Royal Highlander' on 22 October 1983. Introduced to service in June 1961 as E3021, it was withdrawn fourteen months after this, having sustained fire damage, and scrapped at MC Metals, Glasgow, in June 1992. ©Gordon Edgar/Rail Photoprints