50012 Benbow pulls away from Oxford station on 2 April 1983 with the 1A21 11:15 non-stop departure for Paddington. I spent many hours on the Osney Lane footbridge in the 1980s, as it was an ideal vantage point for taking pictures of southbound trains, and offered a wide range of photographic angles, as the long bridge crossed the scrapyard sidings next to Becket Street. As can be seen by the rusty sidings in the foreground, there was hardly ever going to be anything parked in the way blocking the view. Unfortunately this view was completely ruined when a car park was constructed on the former sidings in the late 1990s.