Peter Kerslake adds "A delightful photograph taken from the station footbridge with the sun in the best quarter as Cardiff Canton's 70028 Royal Star runs into Abergavenny Junction at the head of a stopping passenger working between Manchester and Cardiff with an empty Reporting Number frame in place from an earlier working, and with what looks like a van at the tail end of its modest load .The fourth of Canton's Britannias, arriving thre from new in October 1952. It was loaned to Exmouth Junction on the Southern Region for a month when their Merchant Navy class developed axle problems in May 1953, It was transferred away from the Western to the London Midland Region in September 1961, initially to Birmingham's Aston Depot."