Caption:

High summer at Shrewsbury station and two BR Sulzer Type

2 Class 25s (25327 and 25283) come to a halt at the southbound platform starting signal with a dated summer timetabled train of Mark One stock, probably heading over the Cambrian main-line via Welshpool and Machynlleth to Aberystwyth from Manchester or Liverpool. Most of this traffic used to run at night, but this one didn’t, creating interest in the family waiting on the platform, or perhaps they are off on holiday. Note how the two locomotives carry their running numbers in different locations on the sides of their bodywork.