Preserved Large Logo Class 50 50031 'Hood' leaves Bargoed with the 18.16 Bargoed - CardiffCentral service, a special timetable wasa in operation in conjunction with a Rugby International, 28/8/99. The use of privately owned Class 50's and coaching stock which enabled the normal DMU's to be re-deployed elsewhere on Rugby match days was the brainchild of the then Valley Lines General Manager Tom Clift, a professional 'hands on' railwayman who is sadly no longer with us. ©John Chalcraft/www.railphotoprints.co.uk