165130 Shottesbrooke 15 May 1993

165130 passes Shottesbrooke on 15 May 1993 with the 2F33 11:47 Paddington to Reading Network SouthEast service. 165130 had only been in traffic a few months when this picture was taken, and with deliveries of the class now complete, the long reign of the Pressed Steel Class 117s on these duties had come to an end. As can be seen from the dark menacing clouds in the background, this was a day of very sporadic sunshine, and I was very lucky to get this picture in the sun. Coincidentally, just over a year earlier I had photographed one of the hired in Chiltern Line units at this location in very similar lighting conditions.