Three Cocks with Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0 46519 waits to depart with the 2.15pm to Hereford on 28th July 1959.
The running-in board on the right was inscribed ‘THREE COCKS – CHANGE FOR BUILTH WELLS, LLANDRINDOD WELLS, LLANIDLOES, AND THE CAMBRIAN COAST.’, the latter somewhat optimistically ignoring the need to change again at Moat Lane Junction after a two-hour journey up the Mid-Wales Line!

Photo: R.O. Tuck/Rail Archive Stephenson