50013 Agincourt races past South Moreton (Didcot East) on 1 December 1983 with the 1A21 11:15 Oxford to Paddington non-stop service. All this has now gone. Agincourt was scrapped in 1988, eight coach air conditioned loco hauled trains from Oxford have been downgraded to DMUs, the power station in the background is no more, and the viewpoint itself has now been ruined by the Great Western Mainline electrification scheme. Strangely however, the gas holder in the background survives, although seemingly disused, and collapsed down to its lowest position. |