47001 takes the middle down road through Taunton station with an unidentified working. At this stage, Taunton boasted two large signal boxes, both of GWR Type 11 design. They were Taunton West and East, formally East Junction. There was also Taunton West Junction that closed in the early 1970s, it was located just east of the Staplegrove Road bridge. The central island platform at Taunton was very rarely used at this time with large wooden padlocked doors preventing access from the pedestrian tunnel that linked all the platforms.
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