During the 1970s a short length of the former Midland & South Western Junction Railway was retained from the Great Western Mainline at Swindon as far north as Moredon Power Station. The line extended for approximately ½ mile beyond the power station in what was presumably intended as a very long headshunt. I assume no trains ever ventured up this far, and consequently there was no need to provide a buffer stop! The very end of the line is just about visible in the undergrowth in this 22 August 1978 view. The track was lifted a few months later. Note the very characteristic feature of many landscape pictures taken in the 1970s - the row of dead elm trees on the horizon, recently killed by Dutch elm disease.