Britannia 70013 Oliver Cromwell has just taken the Main to Goods crossover at Lenton South Junction prior to taking the road to Lenton North Junction with 1Z61 “The Palatine” special charter from London Victoria to Sheffield, 9th May 2009. The train was advertised as the “The Palatine” but the engine is carrying “The Cathedrals Express” headboard for some unknown reason. The last time I saw a Britannia at Lenton South Junction was in the summer of 1966 when 70026 Polar Star appeared totally unexpectedly on a parcels train from the Trent direction. Half an hour later Polar Star re-appeared light engine, being turned on the Mansfield Junction – Lenton North Junction – Lenton South Junction triangle and headed back towards Trent. Oliver Cromwell was built at Crewe Works and completed in May 1951. It was the very last steam locomotive to be overhauled at Crewe works and became the very last Pacific in service. Regular British Railways steam ended on 3rd August 1968, but the final “end of steam” specials did not run until the 11th August 1968 when 70013 was one of a small number of steam locomotives to haul British Railways last steam train passenger train, the Fifteen Guinea Special between Liverpool Lime Street and Carlisle. Following withdrawal it was on display for thirty six years at the Bressingham Steam Museum until moved to Loughborough in 2004 for overhaul and was steamed for the first time in forty years in the spring of 2008.