166217 Aston Magna 25 March 2011

166217 swings around the curve at Aston Magna on 25 March 2011 with the 1P37 08:58 Great Malvern to Paddington First Great Western service. In the foreground is the recently laid but not yet commissioned new up line, part of the Cotswold Line redoubling programme. Ironically I photographed the same unit at this location on what was essentially a similar train just over two years previously. Note that one of the scourges of modern railway photography - a radio mast has appeared in the background in the intervening time.