As the electrification, that had been started, from Didcot to Oxford has been cancelled GWR now have to operate a somewhat farcical and highly unsatisfactory shuttle service between the two places. GWR utilise a number of cascaded Class 165s to operate these trains with some being all-station stoppers and some going through to Banbury. The third leg of our journey from Frome to Northampton involved making this short jump aboard the 16.35 Didcot to Oxford train worked by 166122 seen here waiting to leave its starting point.
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