It's hard to believe but some signal lamps are still lit by paraffin and require regular maintenance.

The signal maintainer climbs up to exchange the lamp on the Kennett Down Home. His colleague was doing the same on the Up Home and Down Starter.

The signal is off for the 4M94 to Lawley Street

Kennett is a small station on the edge of the village. It is served by a train every two hours on the Cambridge to Ipswich route. A couple of passengers are waiting for the 10:06 to Cambridge

The 09:55 Peterborough to London Liverpool Street passing the Kennett Up Home

It was followed by the 11:11 to Ipswich, which paused for a solitary customer.

Hot on the latter's heels came 66518 on what I guess was the 4L89 from Coatbridge

It was running on the expectation it would be stopped, which is indeed what happened at the signal beyond the stone terminal.

I managed to get ahead of it to take another picture, this time passing the closed station at Higham, between Kennett and Bury St Eds.

And right behind the 4L89 came what I guess was the 4L41. It too was stopped at the signal beyond the Kennett stone terminal.

The driver returning from phoning the signal man.

66590 gets underway, pulling a train of empty flats.

Each divert was double manned, presumably a pilot riding with the driver.

Approaching Ely Dock Junction and the bridge over the River Great Ouse, 66578 on the 4M87 to Trafford Park.

66578 climbs towards the river crossing

Shortly after the passage of the 4M87 we were treated to the 4L93 from Lawley Street.

Another long train of empties with but a solitary 2TEU container riding on the 16th of 20 flats

The water in the Ouse Washes has subsided since my last visit on 22nd November. A XC 170 on a Stansted Airport service crossing the washes, the 100' River is in the foreground.

The 4L85 is the regular Freightliner daylight working across the Fens. 66535 was in charge as it crosses the Washes...

...and the bridge over the B1411, at the foot of the 100' River bank.