Nottingham - Bournemouth West express leaving Westbury (!)
View NE, towards Westbury station and Bristol via Trowbridge, also London via Newbury: ex-GWR main lines. In previous years this Summer Holiday train ran over the Somerset & Dorset line from Bath, but in 1963, after the Western Region took over and degraded the S&D, the route followed was via Bristol Temple Meads (reverse), Bath Spa, Trowbridge, Westbury and Salisbury - until in 1964 the Salisbury - Bournemouth via Fordingbridge line was closed! This otherwise rather uninteresting photograph is perhaps interesting in that respect. The locomotive is Collett 4-6-0 No. 5986 'Arbury Hall' (built 11/39, withdrawn 9/63).