Hinksey Yard is home to just a short rake of oil tanks on 28 July 1983, as 56070 passes by in the background with the 7V63 12:37 Three Spires Junction to Didcot Power Station MGR, which was running exactly to the booked time. Built during the Second World War, and extremely busy until the end of steam, the 1970s and 80s saw the yard used for nothing more than the storage of odd rakes of wagons, and latterly as a dumping ground for condemned stock. It has since been transformed into a busy 'Virtual Quarry' ballast dump.