56062 Oxford (Walton Well Road) 22 April 1986

56062 approaches Oxford on 22 April 1986 with the 7V65 11:56 Desford Colliery to Didcot Power Station MGR working. At this time the majority of coal trains to Didcot (there were often as many as fifteen per day) were in the hands of Class 58s, so a relatively clean 56 in original Railfreight livery was a definite bonus. This picture is taken from the Walton Well Road bridge which is relatively traffic free, as it only leads to a car park on the edge of Port Meadow. The footbridge in the background is at the end of Aristotle Lane.