165101 Oxford 16 August 1997

Transition time at Oxford on 16 August 1997. Part of the former goods yard has been fenced off, and work has started on converting it to a car park. In the background 165101 leaves the station with the 10:03 Oxford to Paddington Thames Trains service. There always used to be complaints about the scrapyard that occupied the goods yard site in latter years, and how it wasn't a very good advert for Oxford for passengers arriving from London. Presumably that is why the plywood fence has been erected, to hide the equally ugly Portakabins from view!