47508 'Great Britain' passes Tiverton Junction leading the 13.30 Paddington to Paignton service. The station was a grand affair that once was a junction for the branches to Hemyock, Tiverton itself and Dulverton. It also had an oil depot seen in this photograph that was rail linked but I never actually witnessed any trains accessing it. The huge grass bank in the background has the M5 motorway running along the top of it. 47508 was named the previous year at Old Oak Common and was renamed as part of the GWR 150 celebrations in 1985 becoming the similarly named 'SS Great Britain'.
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