L412 Ruscombe 28 May 1983

L412 (51347, 59499 & 51389) heads away from the camera at Ruscombe on 28 May 1983 with the 2A28 12:01 Paddington to Oxford service, just as 47507 slowly coasts into view with the late running 1V15 08:20 Liverpool Lime Street to Paddington train. The 47's engine was shut down, and this picture captures it as it gradually loses speed, before coming to a halt a couple of hundred yards further on. Failures were dealt with much more speedily in those days, and within the hour 47232 had arrived to drag the train off towards Paddington.