When I last visited Colthrop box it was 1986 and behind was a creamery and a large area of MOD warehousing. Whilst the box has outlived these structures it has not come through unscathed having lost its central chimney and tin cap. It also has a reproduction nameplate now, it had nothing fitted back in the mid-1980s. In this picture, 165111 has just passed the box with the 10.12 Reading to Newbury working.
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