55030 (L130) leaves Oxford station's platform 1 on 25 September 1987 with the 2M63 08:48 Network SouthEast service to Banbury. This view of the north end of the station shows the bridge over the Sheepwash Channel (a backwater of the River Thames), with the remnants of Oxford shed (81F) in the background. The houses in Abbey Road on the left were built in the nineteenth century for railway employees.