R WELSFORD

In 1976 i caught a Western hauled Paignton-Oxford train from Bristol, on arrival at Bath, a man who was travelling in the first coach with me, jumped out and took a photo of the loco (D1071) and then quickly rejoined the train, the photo was published in a small pictorial book on the Western diesels and that's how i found out the photographer was N E Preedy himself. What a legacy he has left us in his photographs, a real railway enthusiast sadly missed by us all.