HST set 253011 (either of 43022 or 43023) crosses Bradford South Junction working an unidentified up diversion to Paddington. From this point and for the next few miles or so the train will have been heading south and west that was actually away from its destination until it reached is Wesbury's Hawkeridge Junction where it will have head east once again via the Berks. and Hants. route to Reading. Ten years from when this photograph was taken the up line (the second one in) in the foreground was removed with the entire line to Thingley Junction singled and the semaphores were removed with control moving to the Westbury PSB.
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