B591 (51059, 59433 & 51102) lays a smoke screen over Oxford as it departs with the 14:28 Oxford to Great Malvern service on 22 April 1986. Unbelievably, given today's frequency of trains on the Cotswold Line, the previous down working had been 3½ hours earlier! The residents of the newly built canal side houses just off Walton Well Road are constantly complaining about the fumes from Turbo units that stable in the sidings made invisible here by the smoke. They should consider themselves lucky that their houses weren't built in 1986, as there certainly would have been a few letters written to the papers if they had to put up with this lot! |