Express for Liverpool waits to leave Cardiff General Station
View westwards, towards Swansea etc.; ex-GWR South Wales main line. The 16.40 to Liverpool Lime Street is headed by 4-6-0 No. 5936 'Oakley Hall' (built 7/33, withdrawn 1/65): it will run via Newport, Hereford, Shrewsbury and Crewe, the WR handing over to the LMR at Shrewsbury. Beyond it is an early DMU on an eastbound local working, while on the Down Independent line one of the numerous main-line freights is receding westwards.