50019 Charfield 13 March 1989

Two vintage forms of transport at Charfield on 13 March 1989! 50019 Ramillies passes a Volvo 66 parked on Little Bristol Lane. Ramillies had only been transferred to the DCWA departmental sector a few weeks earlier, and this is the only occasion that I saw it whilst an engineer's loco, and still wearing Network SouthEast livery. A couple of months later it received what would become known as the 'Laira Blue' livery. Happily Ramillies survives in preservation, but the quirky car with its unusual belt driven variable transmission has not been on the road since 1994, so is presumably scrapped, or else is rusting away in a barn somewhere!