9th May 2021

(2) Having passed Hewish Gates 23 minutes beforehand, on the down service, here is SWR Class 159 no. 159021 on the return service approaching the level crossing at 17.14, on the 1L64 17.06 Axminster to Gillingham service. The unit is sprinting along at high speed as it approaches, disturbing a magpie that I had been watching a few minutes earlier - you can see him just to the left. In the undergrowth to the left would have been the area once occupied by the original down line, loop and siding, all closed back in the sixties.