Leggett Freightways trailers fill the old station yard at Shrivenham on 19 December 1981, while the remnants of the previous week's heavy snowfall can still be seen next to the old platforms. 47556 passes by with the 4A21 11:55 Bristol Temple Meads to Old Oak Common empty newspaper vans. Over three decades of lineside growth have done their best to camouflage the old platforms since this picture was taken, but pending the route's electrification, they are still there.