A photograph taken in an identical position to one taken some nine months previously but in very different weather....
https://www.ontheupfast.com/v/photos/21936chg/25511221604/x33027-08-56-portsmouth-harbour-bristol 31213 waits to get away from Bradford-on-Avon. It is leading the 12.07 Portsmouth Harbour to Bristol Temple Meads, a train composed of a smart rake of Mk. I stock. Whilst the driver seems pre-occupied with getting the RA from the guard he does not seem bothered by a fifteen-year-old boy off the end of the platform and taking a photograph; how different to things today!