JL - 8.4.20 66767 6E77 Arcow - Hunslet Tilcon, 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. Forming 6E77 Arcow - Hunslet Tilcon and heading for the loop at Blea Moor 66767 leads a well graffiti-ed rake of hoppers past Salt Lake nature reserve in stunning Spring conditions.