Caption:

The north end of Wolverhampton station – once High Level

- witnesses the meeting of two AC electric powered services and in the foreground, having terminated from London, is Class 87 number 87017. This class was built, in 1973/4, specifically for WCML services after the inauguration of overhead electric wiring throughout London to Glasgow. With 5000hp they had the capacity to single head Inter City expresses that had previously required two Class 50 diesels. This loco was later named Iron Duke and eventually was sold to Bulgaria in 2009. Approaching is an AL6 Class 86 3300hp engine (86214) heading what is probably a through train from Manchester to the West Country or South Wales via Birmingham New Street. It is rounding the tight curve having travelled from Stafford. The route to the left ahead leads to Shrewsbury.