Location help Corsham?

[acg5324]

This one is a bit of a troublesome one. We have 33034 on what looks like the Brighton to Exeter service on 24/5/80. Headcode should be 11. The location on the neg is marked as Corsham, which is at the eastern end of Box tunnel....so wrong route for the train. The mile post shows 71 1/2 but Corsham is 98 miles from Paddington. I can also find no reference to Legget Transport lorries in the goods yard. 

Any help with the location will be greatly appreciated.

 

Edited December 22, 2021 by acg5324
mileage typo

[Oldddudders]

The fact that the station formerly had 4 tracks must limit possibilities a little. 

[Mike_Walker]

I think it is Shrivenham which was 71m 44c on the GWML.  It had platform loops and the background looks right.  The position of the milepost, a typical BRW style one, tells us this is an Up train but is clearly not a Brighton to Exeter service unless it's very lost!  

 

Incidentally, Corsham was at 98m 26c not 88 miles.

[Fat Controller]

I was just about to type the same..The hauliers' vehicles in the background are from a company with an address at near-by South Marston. The identity of the train is a bit of a puzzle, though.

1 minute ago, Mike_Walker said:

I think it is Shrivenham which was 71m 44c on the GWML.  It had platform loops and the background looks right.  The position of the milepost, a typical BRW style one, tells us this is an Up train but is clearly not a Brighton to Exeter service unless it's very lost!  

 

Incidentally, Corsham was at 98m 26c not 88 miles.

[HillsideDepot]

I agree that it is Shrivenham. Unusual to see a photo from this side of the line, though. More usually photographers seem to favour the opposite side as here http://www.hondawanderer.com/43148_Shrivenham_1992.htm 

 

[acg5324]

Superb work gents. The train might be a red herring as it looks like a typical mishmash SR loco hauled set pair of BCKs and an RMB and half the headcode for the Exeter. It could be an excursion working, unusual to have a Buffet. Nothing on sixbellsjunction or the Railgenarchive sites.

I thought the word under Legget on the trucks would be transport not freightways.

The other excellent photo on Martin Loaders website shows a more contemporary to 1980 image.

http://www.hondawanderer.com/47556_Shrivenham_1981.htm

Edited December 22, 2021 by acg5324

[Fat Controller]

2 minutes ago, acg5324 said:

Superb work gents. The train might be a red herring as it looks like a typical mishmash SR loco hauled set pair of BCKs and an RMB and half the headcode for the Exeter. It could be an excursion working, unusual to have a Buffet. Nothing on sixbellsjunction or the Railgenarchive sites.

Could it be overhauled stock from Swindon?

[The Stationmaster]

10 minutes ago, Fat Controller said:

Could it be overhauled stock from Swindon?

Looks more like a passenger train.  Running as Class 1 and there appears to be a toilet which has just been flushed at the trailing end of the 3rd vehicle (although that could be the Guard of course).

[Rivercider]

It does seem to be an unusual working. What was happening around then?

The Rainhill 150 celebrations took place at that date, any connection perhaps?

 

cheers

[31A]

Class 33s sometimes went a long way off their home turf on troop trains; we used to see them at Cambridge very occasionally for example, but again I should have thought a buffet car would be unusual!

 

[62613]

Was going to say maybe a Footex or a Rugex, but not on that date, obviously!

 

[37114]

The thread title got my notice as I live in Corsham, as soon as I saw the photo my thought was it looks more like Shrivenham and then saw others have said the same.

[62613]

is it even May, looking at those large trees on the horizon?