The fertilizer distribution depot to the northern side of Thingley

Junction has been out of use for some years but the siding remain rail connected. The extensive empty space has been wisely kept by Network rail and is now to be the home of the contractors working to construct the massively delayed and over-budget GWML electrification. For a time in the 1990s the sidings were used to store redundant Mk. 1 stock and, on occasions, some locomotives that included 50017 'Royal Oak'. On one occasion towards the end of this period, I passed the junction on a train on a Sunday evening and witnessed a Mk. 1 coach fully ablaze with the fire engine in attendance. In this remote location, it will have been as a result of vandals I suspect.