47559 Chalford 16 April 1983

47559 Sir Joshua Reynolds climbs through the Golden Valley near Chalford on 16 April 1983 with the 1A67 07:32 Cheltenham to Paddington service. This train had only a few more weeks of booked locomotive haulage, before being replaced with a HST diagram for the summer 1983 timetable. Note the telegraphic poles on the left, which were set to disappear from this route during the next few years. Hardly surprising, as the semaphore signals were replaced years before.