Peter Kerslake says "Looking remarkably clean and still with all her plates intact even as late as 1964 "Purley Hall", a Bristol Bath Road engine in her earlier years, is engaged on station pilot and shunting duties here at Didcot in 1964 with the two lamps on her front framing being in the correct position for such tasks, and not to be confused with the same "Express Passenger" configuration.
The line to Oxford curves away in the distance, with Didcot M.P.D. out of shot on the extreme left."