A photograph that I can provide little information about! I have no record of the Class 50 or the working. This is unusual as I was pretty fastidious even as a sixteen year old about my railway record keeping! All I do know is that it is a picture recovered from the rejects' box and given a fair bit of Photoshop treatment to get it up to a presentable standard. The 50 is entering the station on the down main (the former platform two) passing the up home gantry controlled by the rarely photographed East signal box that is seen in the background. Notice that the dolls on the gantry are wooden probably dating from proper Great Western days as the later British Railways' replacement versions were grey steel. After nursing the Mini as far as Newton Abbot and dropping off David for his return journey to Bradford-on-Avon by train, Graham and I continued on alone keeping a very close eye on the car's temperature gauge!
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