I had travelled behind 46011 from Bristol Temple Meads to

here, at Gloucester. It is the process of being detached from its unidentified down working whilst a replacement locomotive has moved off from Horton Road depot and will be being attached to what will be the front of the train when it gets away to head northwards towards Birmingham. I rejoined the train to travel the short distance to Cheltenham for my interview at the College of St. Pul and St. Mary. Notice the Royal Mail trolleys on the platform, a useful piece of railway infrastructure widely used by us spotters back dring this era!