A lovely view of one of the shortest lived BR classes, luckily this one survives in private ownership following a period of industrial service at Ashington. This original slide was dated 1969, the April 1969 Railway Observer reported that on 14th Feb 1969 D9521 and D9538 were both at Margam. The same edition also summarised the remaining class 14 diagrams in South Wales and opined that the class was unlikely to survive after March. There was one duty listed from Margam - the 03:40 Glyncorrwg. However the May RO records that the class 14 used on the 15:40 (sic.) Margam - Glyncorrwg had been replaced by a 350hp shunter (utilising a loco that had become spare when the Bridgend pilot duty was withdrawn in January), thus bringing to an end Margam-based class 14 workings. Harris has it in store at Landore in March 69 and withdrawn on 24/4/69 and moved to Canton later in that year. To me the sun looks too high for a pre March shot. D1692 is behind looking very ex-works which occured in July/August 1968 so despite the slide being dated 1969 I now think this is in the late summer of 1968. Thanks to Nigel Wassell for his information on these workings. Note also the Pullman coach.