Top: D1012 Western Firebrand  pauses on one of the centre roads at Plymouth station in the early 1970's. Below: Suprisingly not a deal has changed in the thirty-odd year gap between the two photos, indeed, even the centre track remains in situ and in use! Long gone though, are the sounds of the Westerns Maybach engines and the MkI passenger stock to be replaced by the monotony of the modern rail scene.