47475 makes a smoky departure from Charlbury on 15 April 1983 with the 1A75 07:05 Hereford to Paddington service. In the 1980s passenger services on the Cotswold Line were worked either by Class 47s or 50s, which meant you either got a smoky or noisy departure from station stops! Naturally I was prepared for this volcanic eruption and had framed the picture using the two surviving telegraph poles, one of which still survives over a quarter of a century later by virtue of its use as lamp fixing.