After my usual Bacon Butty I went down Rushey Lane expecting to see 78018 on the 12:00 from Loughborough to Leicester North. I heard a diesel horn that didn’t sound like the DMU but was staggered when English Electric Type 3 Co-Co 37 714 hauled the train instead. It was only later in the afternoon that I learned that 78018 had failed on its first run. I had thought how good it looked when I saw it on the ten o’clock.