JL - 8.4.20 158910 14:50 Carlisle - Leeds, Salt Lake Reserve

With the UK on corona virus lock down, Government guidance allows us to go out for 1 hours exercise per day to prevent the spread and 'flatten the curve', and even then this has to be within a few miles radius of your home. Realistically, this limits me to a stretch of the S&C and a very short section of the WCML. With S&C freight traffic at an all time low decisions about which working to target become easy. The only freight diagram on any part of the S&C today was the late afternoon departure from Arcow. We timed our daily Boris walk to coincide with the departure from Arcow and took some well deserved family exercise on the deserted area around Ribblehead. Before 6E77 appeared an empty 158910 quietly slide through Salt Lake nature reserve in stunning Spring conditions forming 14:50 Carlisle - Leeds which is part of an emergency timetable for key workers.