The eastern , or London end of Bath Spa station would have provided a splendid location for a spell of railway photography , with all incoming workings having run through the scenic Sydney Gardens and now slowing as they crossed over the viaduct before running into the sharply curved station itself .
A smartly turned out 1004 " County of Somerset " displays her 82C Swindon shedplate with her fireman taking a breather at the head of a down express passenger working , but has she come onto this duty at Swindon or perhaps from Paddington , I wonder ?
Swindon Depot also had 1019 , " County of Merioneth " on its books at this period in time , but the class of thirty were spread over no less than eight Motive Power Depots in 1956 , ranging from Shrewsbury and Chester in the north down to Penzance in the far west , with Bristol Bath Road and Shrewsbury having the most , each with six " Counties " on their respective allocations .