60039 plods along the down GWML with daily 13.00 Theale to Robeston empty tanks. It had been held in the Challow loops to allow the passage of faster express trains until control found a gap sufficiently large to allow it to continue westwards. The train would be held at Swindon again until it would be allowed to proceed for South Wales along the Badminton line from Wootton Bassett Junction where there is no access to any loops until Chipping Sodbury.
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