11th March 1988

50015 "Valiant" arrives at platform 5 with the 13.10 Birmingham New Street to London Paddington. Valiant was one of the many 50s preserved. It was also the last of the class I needed to clear them. A friend called me one day to tell me that it had worked down to Exeter on the Waterloo route, so a dash down to the station at Axminster to catch the return working allowed me to make the final red line in the book!