47458 Charlbury 9 May 1987

47458 pulls away from Charlbury station on 9 May 1987 with the 1B56 18:12 Paddington to Hereford service. Usually time keeping on the Cotswold Line was pretty good in the 1980s, certainly far better than it is now, so it is noteworthy that this was running 15 minutes late. Unfortunately that late running meant that the sun had almost totally faded out into high cloud.