Lovely evening light near Cassington on 16 May 1986 as 50016 Barham works the 1B46 17:00 Paddington to Hereford service. There is plenty of luggage accommodation on this train as the first two vehicles are BG vans! This location is approximately half way between  the site of the former Yarnton Junction and the first station on the Cotswold Line - Handborough., and is on the long single track section from Wolvercote Junction to Ascott-under-Wychwood.

50017 Royal Oak pulls away from Whitchurch station on 20 April 1991 with the 1O32 06:45 Exeter St Davids to Waterloo Network SouthEast service. The LSWR architecture is still much in evidence. 50017 was to only last another four months in traffic, failing with the Class 50's achilles heel - a main generator flashover.

50017 Royal Oak (running as 50117) & 50015 Valiant catch the last rays of the setting sun as they accelerate away from Blue Anchor with the 17:25 Bishops Lydeard to Minehead service on 19 September 1998. This was during the West Somerset Railway's Diesel Gala. 50017 is running with the number and livery (Railfreight General) which would have been applied to members of the class, had they followed the example of 50049 and been converted for purely freight use.

50018 Resolution approaches Kingham with the 08:05 Hereford to Paddington service on 4 June 1983. This photo is taken from the abutment of the former Banbury to Cheltenham direct flyover bridge, which in the 1980s before the bushes grew up was an excellent vantage point for the two southbound loco hauled trains in the morning as well as the two northbound trains in the evening, although I never once met another photographer there!.

50019 Ramillies weaves across from the up relief line at Hinksey North and crosses both up and down lines to gain access to Hinksey Yard on 23 July 1989. It was bringing a train of spent ballast from an engineering possession on the Banbury line, and departed north again shortly afterwards with a loaded ballast train. This is an extremely rare appearance of a DCWA allocated Class 50 to the Oxford area, and probably the only time that 50019 visited whilst in its 'Laira Blue' livery, which it had received a couple of months previously.

A panoramic view of the north end of Hinksey Yard on 3 March 1984. 50020 Revenge heads south with the 14:15 Oxford to Paddington service. The Oxford skyline in the background is still free from the visually dominant Ice Rink which was to open later in the year. Hinksey Yard was constructed during World War 2, but by the 1980s had become very little used, however over twenty years after this picture was taken it is once again busy, in its new role as a ballast stockpile.

50020 Revenge spent its last two years in revenue earning service allocated to the DCWA pool, working engineers trains around the Gloucester, Bristol and Exeter areas. On 13 March 1989 it had charge of the 9C04 14:54 Gloucester to Bristol East Depot, seen here passing the remains of Charfield station. Note the rake of freshly painted wagons at the head of the train. The bridge in the background was the site of serious accident in 1928.