With the Cambrian lines curving away in the distance, what a mix of passenger stock!

The Reporting Number indicates a working on the Shrewsbury and Wolverhampton line , and by the mixture of stock probably a working destined to run via Oxford down to Southern Region territory and the South Coast rather than a Paddington bound duty .
" Burton Agnes Hall " had been allocated to Cardiff Canton in her earlier years but was to end its working life at Oxford , as did so many of the class in the mid ' sixties , and following withdrawal on the 31st . December , 1965 was saved for preservation by the Great Western Society and initially stored at Totnes in South Devon before moving to Didcot under its own steam and piloting little 1466 all the way on a very damp and dismal 2nd . December 1967 when the Society transferred its locomotives and rolling stock from Totnes to their permanent new home at Didcot