Fantastic lighting at Cholsey on 8 July 2014. 43031 leads the 3G02 05:37 Paddington to Swindon First Great Western ECS through a few minutes worth of stunning photographic conditions, with the golden fields bathed in early morning sunshine, while the background is still underneath a bank of really dark clouds. Lying in the long grass to the right of the power car is one of the tubular steel piles that will support the soon to be installed overhead electrification masts.