Caption:

Class 45 89 (recently D89 and later 45006) awaits departure

to the south with a service to London St Pancras. Someone has made a half-hearted attempt to obliterate the ‘D’ as if that was going to convince the travelling public thiss was a bright, new, modernised railway. On the far side of the station, another Class 45 (98 and later 45059) waits to head south with possibly a cross-country service to the South West, or a service from Leeds to St Pancras. Both split-headcode box machines were condemned in 1986, after 25 years of service.