Newcastle-on-Tyne - Cardiff express at Newport High Street station.
View eastwards, showing the Down Main platform as it was before the major alterations of 1961. The 8.12am from Newcastle has come via York, Sheffield, Birmingham New Street and Gloucester - where the WR locomotive has taken over, due Cardiff 4.35pm. The locomotive is Collett 4-6-0 No. 4918 'Dartington Hall' (built 3/29, withdrawn 6/63).