165126 Chilson 21 March 2018

165126 passes Chilson on 21 March 2018 with the 2E92 06:53 Worcester Foregate Street to Didcot Parkway GWR service. This is my favourite Cotswold Line train, not just because it runs at an ideal time for photography (albeit requiring an early start!), but because it is the only truly local southbound train of the day, serving all the minor stations. It has just called at Ascott-under-Wychwood, and will later call at Finstock and Combe. Another incentive to photograph this train in 2018, is that normally it is the only one on the route worked by a two car Class 165, most of which are still in the much more photogenic First Great Western blue livery, rather than the three car units, which sport GWR's drab green colour scheme.