Peter Kerslake says "Brunel's wonderful Temple Meads station at Bristol, with its impresssive roof spans, is seen to advantage in this view, where Midland and Western engines would come together, and the nearest location that we lads down in Plymouth could reach to see all such wonders .
5055, "Earl of Eldon" shows a lamp code for an express fitted parcels or perishables working, and was one of the class which enjoyed a varied allocation of sheds during its working life, being at Old Oak Common in the mid 'fifties and later going to Newton Abbot, Carmarthen, Hereford and finally Gloucester ten yars later, from where it was finally withdrawn in October, 1964".
The "spotters" are out in force, and is that the fireman with his trouser legs tucked into his boots ?