43194 speeds past Compton Beauchamp on 12 May 2015 with the 1B63 17:15 Paddington to Carmarthen First Great Western service. I was waiting for a sunny evening on which to take this picture, as it requires it to be light enough in the evening for the sun to be on the north side of the line, but early enough in the season so that the stinging nettles in the foreground haven't had much chance to grow. Just look how high the dead stems from last year are! Directly in front of the power car is the marked out site for one of the new electrification masts. Note the vintage rustic fence on the left, and the perilous state of the semi-derelict farm building on the right. It looks like it would only take one of the cows in that field to be a little too vigorous while using the roof support as a scratching post, to have the whole roof collapse on top of it! |