20015 & 20076 with a train of steel scrap. In October 1988 both these locos became scrap themselves.<P>

I had just bought a zoom lens and this was one of the first shots I used it on. Even after all this time this is still one of my favourite rail photos.<P>

On the wall there is the graffiti 'Doctor Buckton - closing the railways' - a reference comparing Ray Buckton, the train drivers union ASLEF General Secretary of the time, and Doctor Beeching who produced a report in 1963 which lead to many line closures in the UK. The Graffiti was probably daubed during the bitter Flexible Rostering strike of the previous winter.<P>

Horbury Cutting, 7th June 1982. Colin Baker (lokfuehrer@ntlworld.com)<P>