Still wearing its obsolete set number 253045, 43171 passes the banner repeater signal at Blackwell on 19 April 1988 with the 11:00 Leeds to Plymouth service on 19 April 1988. The train is about to descend the 1 in 37 Lickey Incline. Blackwell station (which closed in 1965) was situated just at the end of the fence on the left, occupying the waste ground in front of the conifer tree.