Three Western Beauties

It's the year following the 'Great Western 150' celebrations at Didcot Great Western Society depot on September 27, 1986, which is why the reporting number '151' is carried by the locomotive in the centre. Posing by the water columns from left to right are: 'Castle' 4-6-0 No. 5051 'Drysllwyn Castle', 'Modified Hall' 4-6-0 No. 6998 'Burton Agnes Hall' (built by British Railways to a GWR design) and 'Dukedog' 4-4-0 No. 3217 'Earl of Berkeley'.

No. 5051 is carrying the headboard for the Wolverhampton to Penzance 'Cornishman' express.