47437 Wickwar Tunnel 10 August 1985

47437 emerges from Wickwar Tunnel on 10 August 1985 with the 1V52 10:20 Edinburgh to Plymouth relief service, which it had taken over at Birmingham New Street. This is something you don't get on today's totally inflexible railway. BR in the 1980s might have been inefficient, but it was a lot better at providing capacity where needed - as here on a summer Saturday.