"Warship" D818 "Glory" departs from Exeter St Davids with a Waterloo train

August 1970

Class 45 D80 at Filton West Jn with a freight from Avonmouth

August 1970

Class 73 on freight passes Gatwick Airport on Down Brighton Slow

April 1970

A down freight passes through Cardiff General

August 1970

Whitland looking down the Pembroke Dock branch

August 1970

Near Wolfs Castle on the Fishguard branch

August 1970

Trecwm branch at Letterson Jn

August 1970

Dropping down to Fishguard

August 1970

Motorail train loading at Fishguard & Goodwick

August 1970

Fishguard Harbour with MV "Caledonian Princess" alongside

August 1970

Leaving Fishguard

August 1970

Because of the fire on the Britannia Bridge, my return was via Heysham. Here is D214 with the Irish Mail to London

August 1970

The carriage sidings at Heysham

August 1970

The Irish Mail ran in 2 portions on this day, both class 40s are heading trains for Euston

August 1970

I travelled to Birmingham. Here is the class 47 D1731 running round at Morecambe Promenade

August 1970

The fine gantry at the north end of Preston

August 1970

The south end of Crewe

August 1970

Being a Sunday, the train was routed via Cannock and Walsall to Wolverhampton, then back via Bescot and Soho Rd to New St. This is Wolverhampton LL

August 1970

D1731 runs round again at Wolverhampton

August 1970

A very blurred shot of Wolverhampton LL from the Portobello line

August 1970

I changed at New St for a train to Exeter, which was routed via Worcester and Honeybourne. Here we are taking the junction at Honeybourne for the Cheltenham line

August 1970

The line north to Stratford at Honeybourne

August 1970

Cheltenham Spa station from the Honeybourne line. We then reversed back into the platform

August 1970

Bath Road with all sorts of locos plus a Blue Pullman set.

August 1970