Salisbury station, photographed looking west from midway along platform 6 (a south-facing bay platform attached to the end of platform 4. The train is South West Trains Class 159/0 DMU 159009 that is about to begin a service to London Waterloo.<p>

The bridge in the foreground is Fisherton Bridge, the scene of a high-speed derailment in the early years of the 20th Century that resulted in the deaths of 45 people when an express boat train from Plymouth to London colided with an early morning London to Yeovil milk train and a stationary goods train in the station. The cause was excessive speed, and since that time all trains have been required to stop at Salisbury station.
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Photo by <a href="mailto:cmckenna@sucs.org?subject=rail-photo at railfaneurope.net">Chris McKenna</a> 29/09/2006.<br>
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