47621 Shrivenham 25 October 1985

47621 Royal County of Berkshire passes Shrivenham on 25 October 1985 with the 13:48 Paddington to Cardiff Central relief. As relief trains often ran ten minutes before the booked service, this is presumably the relief for the 1B32 14:00 Paddington to Swansea HST. This was in the days when Britain had a fully integrated railway, with enough flexibility to arrange additional trains. Nowadays, when the train operator's profit (or more recently their attempt to reduce their losses!) is more important than getting the passengers to their destination, these kind of trains hardly exist.