The scene at Colchester St Botolphs around 7 a.m. on Friday June 20th 1980. The Class 308 EMU local service to Clacton is drawing out past 37 259, which is waiting to leave with a permanent way train it has turned via the nearby triangular junction. At left is Colchester National Carriers Depot, a once busy rail-road transhipment facility that would close within weeks and be flattened a year later.

Location: Colchester Town (St Botolphs)

Original line: Tendring Hundred Railway

Photographer: Mark Dufton

Contact photographer: Mark Dufton

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Date: 20/06/1980

Image number: 22446

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