10th March 1988

Pressed Steel Class 117 DMUs held sway on nearly all of the local services on the Western Region routes of the Thames Valley. I rode of plenty of them over the years. Here at Slough Reading-based set no. L408 - cars 51343 59495 51385 - slows to a stop on a London Paddington to Maidenhead service, the unit in full Network South East regalia!