50032 'Courageous' approaches Sea Mills on the Avonmouth Loop with the diverted 11.05 Plymouth - Manchester (Su) service, the train was diverted due to engineering work on Ashley Down Bank in conjunction with the reduction from 4 to 2 tracks, 30 years later and there are proposals to increase the number of tracks to 3 (or possibly 4) to ease capacity problems. 19/2/84. ©www.railphotoprints.co.uk - John Chalcraft