56047 Bletchingdon 21 August 1982

56047 passes the site of Bletchingdon station on 21 August 1982 with what is presumably the 6E60 08:50 Didcot Power Station to Barrow Hill MGR empties. The bridge and the track still survive, but virtually everything else in this picture no longer exists. 56047 was withdrawn in 2003, and cut up shortly afterwards. My Vauxhall Cavalier suffered fire damage in 1988 and was scrapped, and Shipton-on-Cherwell Cement Works, which can be seen in the background, was closed in 1986, with the chimney finally being demolished in 2015. On the plus side, a small industrial estate now occupies the waste ground in the foreground, which does unfortunately mean that this viewpoint no longer exists.