08832 and ex works 47345 stand on opposite sides of the Grand Junction lines at Bescot, the 08 performing a shunt towards the Down Local sidings.

37285 is rounding the final curve through Blowers Green towards Dudley tunnel with 6M72 the china clay from St Blazey to Stoke. This English Electric type 3 will have been on full power since leaving Stourbridge Jn but the driver will be easing her off soon.

37679 has traincrew relief on the Up Main at Bescot with a train of steel for Wolverhampton.

47371 is performing a shunt at Kingswinford Jn on the Stourbridge-Walsall route. The track which disappears around the back of the signalbox is the Pensnett branch - formerly the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton railway via Wombourne to Oxley and Wolverhampton.

47553 at the head of the Royal Train at Bescot in the West Midlands. This train was slowing to a halt for Driver relief.

58008 departs from Bescot's Down Local sidings with another train of MGRs to one of the West Midland coal loading points - another typical day in the life of a class 58 !!

A blue 47 heads a northbound train over the Cannock chase as 47508 passes it on a southbound working. Hednesford station is in the distance, but was just a single platform on the upside when this shot was taken.

A class 25 shares the Bescot holding sidings with 87006 adorned in a unique scheme.

A class 73 runs through Eastleigh with the ECS from the overnight mails and papers.

A pair of 33/1s sandwich an 8TC set on the approah to Basingstoke.

A pair of class 31s head an Aberystwyth bound train past my mother's house in Derwenlas in May 1992. Note the full OY rake of stock including Mk3 catering car - devoid of power from these "NB" locos !!

An unrecorded 56 thunders through Basingstoke with a train of ARC stone wagons.