GWR Castle 5092 Tresco Abbey with the7.30am Paddington-Paignton on 1st July 1957.

Peter Kerslake adds "An Old Oak engine with what looks like a new set of Reporting Numbers. This train had coaches for Plymouth as well as the Torquay line and took the long way round via Bristol with the engine working through to Plymouth.

It looks rather quiet for a July with Sprey Point in the background. In 1839 when work on the construction of the line brought down a massive rock fall Brunel decided to leave it where it fell, levelled and walled it and turned into what is now Sprey Point."