47507 Banbury 24 April 1984

47507 leaves Banbury on 24 April 1984 with the 1M88 06:25 Poole to Liverpool Lime Street service. This slightly unusual viewpoint shows the train about to pass underneath the old Grimsbury Road bridge, with evidence of the building of the new bypass road on the left. In the background, behind the pylon, is the large Kraft coffee factory, which often gives this location a pleasant coffee smell! The small group of buildings in front of the factory are the only ones that would have been seen from this spot a century earlier, as the entire background is Banbury's modern urban sprawl.