This is the front cover of the book with a class 50 with a 13 coach train on the sea wall at Dawlish Warren.

31294 passing Bristol Temple Meads station with a VTG Ferry van on 28th June 1980

31304 heads a rake of empty coaching stock along the Thames valley at Basildon on 12th June 1978

31307 approches Reading station on the up fast line with an up parcels train of ex-GWR Siphons on 13th July 1976

31420 heading north at Worcester with a train of tank wagons on 22nd July 1983

A better view of the tank wagons behind 31420

37237 with an up Speedlink freight at Peterstone just west of Newport

A class 46 rolls through the centre line at Exeter St Davids on 22nd May 1977 with a holiday train from the north heading for the south west.

47104 is shunting parcels vans on the up side of Newport station on 7th February 1981, these sidings are now used as a loco stabling point.

47425 still in standard blue livery at Reading with an up Network SouthEast commuter train on the morning of 21st May 1992

56032 stands at Severn Tunnel junction station with west bound oil tanks, on the loops on the right are 2 Speedlink workings waiting to enter the yard, they are headed by 37142 and 47308. Photo taken on 7th May 1986.

Not Blue livery but from the same era, the British Telecom liveried DMU at Dawlish Warren on a very wet 7th April 1985

A 2nd photo of the BT liveried DMU on the same day

46026 at Bristol on 11th August 1984

46026 nameplate 29-7-78

A class 46 at Bristol with the09:50 Cardiff to Weymouth summer saturday train, the 2nd coach is W25509 one of the XP64 Corridor seconds, photo taken on 28th June 1980.