The Coventry to Nuneaton line was always primarily a freight artery serving local industry, particularly a string of local collieries. By the '80s though oil was a major traffic and remains so to the Murco sidings at Bedworth. A flow that was lost in 1986 was to the Charringtons terminal at Hawkesbury Lane. This was booked to run MSX and in it's later days was worked from Ripple Lane to Willesden by a Stratford 47 (SF47 diagram), forward to Coventry Goods by a Class 81/85 (AC200) then tripped to Hawkesbury by a Crewe Class 25 (CD304). The return empties used a similar method, CD304 to Coventry, AC200 to Willesden and SF65 to Ripple Lane. Here 25035 is seen on a wintery 12th February 1986 with the late running 6M43 0405 Ripple Lane-Charrington Sdgs on the climb past Longford - oh for a sound clip!