Grand Central's 09:07 King's Cross to Sunderland passing Alexandra Palace in bright morning sunshine.

By late morning there was more cloud about. First Hull's 10:44 to Hull crossing Welwyn Viaduct.

Looking down from the top of the first of two Welwyn Tunnels, the hourly Cambridge to King's Cross stopping train has just made its stop at Welwyn North. The signal for the junction at Digswell is routing the train onto the Up Slow for the stop at Welwyn Garden City.

And from Welwyn Garden City station the 10:12 from Hull. The 180 is in FHT's Dynamic Lines livery.

WGC was rebuilt by the LNER between the wars. Its not a very interesting station architecturally. A Grand Central HST, forming the 09:10 from Sunderland, chases the tail of Hull's 180.

Offord consists of two adjoining villages - Offord Cluny and Offord D'Arcy. 91111, unique in NXEC livery (and likely to remain so if NXEC do give the franchise up) flashes past Offord Cluny's All Saints Church en-route for London.

Another shot of the medieval church, this time with Hull's 12:12 service to King's Cross

The ECML is blessed with one scheduled freight train on a Sunday, the 6M33 (14:47) from Stevenage to Mountsorrel self-discharge train. Today it ran very early, passing Offord at 14:30.

An NXEC 91 at full speed, pantograph at almost maximum reach on account of the level crossing at Offord.

And here approaching the level crossing (over the Offord to Buckden road) is FHT's 14:10 from Hull

Whilst from the other direction comes a late running 15:44 King's Cross to Hull

Whilst the 91s and Mk4 coaching stock remain in GNER blue, NXEC have almost completed re-branding their HST fleet, this southbound set is approaching the level crossing.

I had resolved to only take one picture at the crossing but this 365 being chased by a IC225 set was worth another shot.

Back at Digswell another HST set reflects the sun off it's NXEC livery crossing the viaduct.

Most Sunday services beyond WGC are in the hands of 365s, so this 317 on a Cambridge train, drawing to a halt at Welwyn North was a bit of a surprise.

The local was running a few minutes late, consequently GC's 18:20 from King's Cross dawdled across the viaduct waiting for the local to clear out of the way at Woolmer Green.