This picture is immediately dated not only by the fact that the loco and coaches are in the sadly missed corporate rail blue livery, but also by the fact that the hedgerows in the background still contain numerous dead elm trees killed off by Dutch Elm Disease which swept the country in the 1970s. 47430 passes the site of Ashbury Crossing near Shrivenham on 28 July 1980 with the 17:27 Paddington to Cheltenham service. Although over ten years after this picture was taken 47430 was allocated to Old Oak Common and would be expected to be seen here, at the time it was a Finsbury Park machine and something of a rarity on the Great Western Mainline.