I do not take going-away photographs as a rule. However, on this day I must have been overcome by a combination of things such as the sun, the subject matter and the position that I had got myself into so that I felt the need to press the shutter for a second time! In its pre-refurbishment condition but in receipt of a recent re-paint 50028 'Tiger' leads the 08.40 Liverpool Lime Street to Penzance away from Newton Abbot. There was a different attitude towards being on railway property then enabling photographs like this to be taken. Also towards the shirtless homeowner adjacent to the signal gantry fly-mowing the top of the embankment! If one could gain access to this location today a photograph would be impossible due to rampant and uncontrolled tree growth.
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