Virgin Trains XC 47810 ‘Porterbrook’ leaves Didcot with the 14:18 1M14 Bournemouth to Manchester Picadilly on Saturday 27th October 2001. In the past this working would have been the return Pines Express but Virgin had ‘denamed’ the classic titled trains at the end of September 2001.
Today ’810′ lives on as ‘Captain Sensible’ in the Cotswold fleet, named after the guitarist of the 1970′s punk band The Damned, Sensible also had a number one solo hit in 1982 with a cover of ‘Happy Talk’ from South Pacific.
This image was taken in the early days of digital with a Canon D30, 3.1 megapixels and cost £1800!

3rd February 2007 and the final class 442 ‘Wessex Electrics’ runs took place with South West Trains. Here we see unit No. 2405 passing Lymington Junction near Brockenhurst with the 1B34 10:01 Poole to Waterloo service.

87101 ‘Stephenson’ in Railfreight Distribution livery races past Heath and Reach with a southbound calcium carbonate slurry working, sadly this unique loco was scrapped at Barrow Hill in 2002.

47806 in Inter City Swallow livery stands at Bristol Temple Meads with a Breakdown Train on 29th June 1991. This loco has been converted to 57309 ‘Brains’ and is part of the ATTB pool with Virgin Trains

60067 ‘James Clerk Maxwell’ in Trainload Coal livery is seen at Didcot Power Station on a Merry Go Round coal service, circa 1990.