I spent almost an hour and a quarter at the Fielding Road footpath crossing waiting for the 11:15 ex-Loughborough, or indeed any train at all, to pass. As time progressed it became increasingly obvious that something was wrong. I went first to Rothley where I learned of the bridge strike at Swithland and that the DMU had just left Rothley in the down direction after waiting in the station for an hour and forty minutes. At approximately one o'clock steam from 6990 WITHERSLACK HALL could be seen in the distance. The driver has just completed the token exchange for the section to Leicester North. It is not often that the journey from Loughborough to Rothley takes an hour and three quarters!