304005 still running as a 4 car unit, stands at platform 3 in Walsall

37111 stands at Crianlarich with an Oban bound train, having recently been bestowed with the plates "Loch Eil Outward Bound"

50008 clatters over a crossover whilst braking for the Salisbury stop on an Up Waterloo bound service. One of Loughborough's finest products lurks in the distance - only joking folks !!!!!

6V70 was the Cliffe Vale (Potteries) - St Blazey service which principally hauled empty clay wagons back to Cornwall for reloading. An unidentified class 47 is passing through Dudley on this rather short train, on the now closed South Staffordshire route to Stourbridge Jn.

Another lousy, freezing cold day and 50020 stops briefly at Coventry with 1V48 1438 Birmingham Paddington in December 1981