L416 Radley 7 December 1985

L416 (51395, 59505 & 51353) leaves Radley station on 7 December 1985 with the 2B62 09:01 Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill service. This was a seriously slow journey, taking 3 hours 17 minutes, with numerous stops. Either the Cotswold line was closed for engineering work on this occasion, resulting in the train terminating at Oxford, or more likely the Oxford destination blind is a red herring, as was often the case in the first generation DMU era, After all, I have pictures of trains on the Cotswold Line showing Salisbury and Radyr in their destination blinds!