There is no possibility that a shot like this could

be taken today, access to such spots in 1977 was far easier and tolerated then. I shudder now to think that my friend and I could be in such an exposed position taking pictures, but it was a different time then I suppose? Another of my trademark very low angle shots at Bathampton Junction showing one of the very successful Swindon built Class 120 dmus. These units were built for fast regional routes across the Western Region but by the early 1980s most had moved north to the Midlands to replace their more decrepit units. C503 was a Cardiff based unit and could well have been returning to the principality on this working that would have originated from either Portsmouth or, more likely, Weymouth. If it was in its set formation C503 should have been composed of W50659, W59281 and W50700.