While waiting for the steam hauled special train on Wednesday 8th December 2021 the Midland main lines just south of East Midlands Parkway seemed unusually quiet. Super Voyager unit 222 020 passed on the down main with 1F20, the 09:02 from London St.Pancras to Sheffield and this train on the up slow line was 2L58, the 08:39 from Grimsby Town to Leicester, consisting of 156 408.