60. Oxford & Didcot without the B & H!-05.09.22

This day had the potential to be a bit of a disaster but an hour or so at Didcot salvaged it! Andy and had the intention of heading to the Berks. and Hants. line to get some stone train freight through some lovely countryside but on arrival between Westbury and Pewsey things were ominously quiet. In fact studying OpenTrainTimes revealed no train movement anywhere between Westbuy's Heywood Road Junction and Newbury. Thinking this odd I consulted GWR's Twitter feed to find a post stating that all services were either cancelled or diverted due to a signalling failure on the line near to Pewsey. So with nothing in the offing and with rain now moving in we made a quick back-up plan and headed for Didcot and found it to be very busy. We saw a lot of workings and got some reasonable photographs despite the heavy rain!

PS this was also the day that the Conservative Party elected the UK's shortest-serving Priminister in the shape of Liz Truss and the rest, as they say, is history!