Three different coach liveries on the first three coaches
Peter Kerslake says"My attempts at colour photography were not too good as most locomotives were pretty dirty and did not produce very successful results. This is one of my better efforts, however, with Truro's 1023 County of Oxford waiting to leave from Platform 6 at Plymouth North Road.

The class was spread over a wide area of the Western Region at this time, with our local ones deployed on express passenger duties as well as making regular appearances on the afternoon heavily loaded Kensington milk train which the Laira Running Foremen seeming to regard them as their chosen form of motive power for this duty."