With the distinctive white painted buffer heads and smokebox door fittiings, so typical of the "Manors" deployed on the Cambrian lines in the' fifties and ' sixties 7803 Barcote Manor is being uncoupled with one of its lamps also being removed by the driver. The train will reverse here to be worked forward to Paddington, probably by one of Shrewsbury's "Castles", probably already coupled up at the other end. Replacing the "Dukedogs" on the Cambrian lines in the early 'fifties the allocation of "Manors" at Machynlleth and the associated Cambrian sheds was increased when a number, arrived displaced from their duties in the West country in the late 'fifties. This named working ended on 4th March 1967. This will be 1961. 7803 had three summers on the CCE in the lined green era, 1958, 1961, and 1964. It didn't acquire the intermediate tender seen here until January 1961, along with a chimney of different pattern to most of the class. The headboard "disappeared" from Aberystwyth shed around Christmas 1963, ergo, this is 1961.