With less than two weeks to go before it was withdrawn from traffic, 50012 Benbow leaves Oxford station on 21 October 1988 with the 1F39 10:00 Oxford to Paddington Network SouthEast service. Unfortunately 50012 has gone the way of the battered Austin Allegro in the scrapyard on the right! While the scrapping of one of BL's 1970s products is hardly something to regret, the cutting up of Benbow at Vic Berry's at Leicester is a different story. The scrapyard has now also gone, and has become Oxford station's car park.