The daily 5A06 06.35 Plymouth to Old Oak Common empty

newspaper vans climbs Whiteball bank with 31279 doing all the work. The train is seen approaching Burlescombe and is taken from the spot, behind a gate, off railway property I hasten to add, where we had just camped for the night! This particular train ran back to London following its down working throughout the night dropping vast numbers of Fleet Street's finest at various locations. This was back in the days when many more people used to buy a daily newspaper and when they were produced centrally rather than electronically with the printing devolved to the regions as is the case today.