So far this is about as close as the railways of the Oxford area have got to electrification! The yard at Hinksey is rather oddly home to an overhead electfrication train on 1 September 1999, as 43177 passes by with the 1B48 17:12 Paddington to Hereford First Great Western service. The badly mismanaged Great Western electfrication scheme that should have seen this line wired had to be scaled back due to massive overspending.