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Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may, for it may not always be so.
~ Mary Jean Iron
Taken on 12th April 1989. Apart from their normal passenger duties one working that often produced a "Hoover" at this time was 4O41, the Cardiff to Southampton Postal. On this date large logo 50016 "Barham" was the motive power, with a featherweight load of two vans. The short train is seen here at Salisbury that night. Salisbury was an ideal place for Class 50 action in the evening and earlier part of the night, with through services to Waterloo and the West, along with terminating trains and the associated movements ready for the next morning. It helped that the station was quite a pleasant and well-lit location for night photography.
50016 was not to be one of the 50s that survived, being cut-up at CF Booth, Rotherham during June 1992.