Nice pictures of the activity at Swindon , where I now live.
Strangely one of my modelling periods is 1982, and my Bachman 08 is ' 839, split from the China clay set.
It's still a reasonably interesting rail location, with the transfer yard, newly relaid and full of yellow trains fro the electrification . The cockleburs yard has been cleared , relaid as well, presumably for the same idea.
There is the regular scrap traffic to Liverpool, which brings in a DBs 66, and the steel traffic to Swindon stores bringing another or a 60.