56001 Shrivenham (Ashbury Crossing) 28 September 1985

56001 emerges from the fog at the site of Ashbury Crossing, near Shrivenham, on 28 September 1985 with a train of MGR empties returning to South Wales from Didcot Power Station. Generally by this date most coal for Didcot came from the Midlands, but there was still the odd working from Wales. Just a few years earlier most of the power station's coal came via this route. I have used a shorter lens here than I would normally use at this location, to lessen the impact of the fog. It was just starting to clear and the sun was almost coming out.