47565 Ascott-under-Wychwood 10 November 1985

47565 passes Ascott-under-Wychwood's last remaining semaphore signal on 10 November 1985, as it heads up the Cotswold Line with the diverted 1S61 07:34 Poole to Glasgow Central service. The Banbury line was closed for engineering work, but I hadn't checked up on this beforehand. It was the clatter of the signal arm dropping to clear that gave me enough warning to get in the right position to photograph this.