Not much of what is going on here survives today

as D1048 ‘Western Lady’ continues to trundle its empty coal hoppers west towards Didcot. As an inevitable result of trying to clean up our environment, the power-station, cooling towers, locomotive and the hopper wagons have all exceeded their sell-by dates and been eliminated. The train itself will soon turn right to head north, back to the coalfields for the wagons to be replenished and returned to the House Coal Concentration Depot at Hayes…..and that’s gone too, having been opened with great fanfare in the early 1960s by no less then Dr Beeching himself.