47540 Compton Beauchamp 19 May 1989

47540 passes underneath the roadbridge at Compton Beauchamp in the very last of the weak evening light on 19 May 1989, Making a change from the constant procession of HSTs, this is the 1C71 18:29 Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads InterCity service. The empty trackbed in the foreground was formerly the up relief line, which ran from Shrivenham to Knighton Crossing.