Waiting for trains at this spot was absolutely delightful. It

was a perfectly still summer morning and and was all quiet apart from the bird song and the sounds of the River Severn rushing down towards Bristol on the ebb tide. 170103 passes the tiny village of Purton with the 07.45 Cardiff Central to Nottingham. Up until the late 1960s this view would have been dominated by the Severn railway bridge that crosed from Sharpness on the far side where the white building is. It was demolished following it being severely damaged by a pair of drifting barges in October 1960. Soon after this it was twice hit again and deemed beyond economic repair.