56012 leaves Didcot Power Station and prepares to join the mainline at Foxhall Junction on 31 July 1986, as it works the 6E41 15:45 Didcot Power Station to Barrow Hill MGR empties. Like a number of the Romanian built 56s, this loco did little work during its first year with BR, as various mechanical faults due to poor workmanship were sorted out.