Thames Valley panorama, with Up freight train approaching Pangbourne
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Thames Valley panorama, with Up freight train approaching Pangbourne
Image: © Ben Brooksbank Taken: 31 May 1951
View northward, towards Didcot, Swindon etc.: ex-GW Paddington - Reading - Swindon - Bristol etc. main line. The Class H freight is headed by Churchward '2800' class 2-8-0 No. 2883. The Thames is in the trees towards the right, Basildon is off to the left; the A329 Reading - Wallingford road is just on the Thames side of the railway here, which the road crosses top-left by an awkward dog-leg bridge which is still (2011) operated one-way with traffic-lights. What a wonderful panorama!
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Image Location
Latitude
51.495501
Longitude
-1.110883