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With meetings fixed up in the East Midlands one day and York the next, I have lodged in Nottingham for the night and begged a lift to Grantham for my run north. Rats, no Azuma, but the excellence of the refreshments served in the Mk 4 makes worthwhile the £6 premium I have paid for First Class on this trip of a tad over an hour. Set up by LNER’s smashing avocado with poached egg on muffin, I am off to interview Northern managers about progress on the Whitby line (p76).