Dawlish! For years I have wanted to come here. We finally made it and after a spell of unsettled weather things improved. Here an HST 125 sweeps along Marine Parade.
First Great Western have now overhauled and re-engined all their HST power cars with MTU engines. Here is 43041 leaving Hereford on the 1321 to London Paddington.
A line up of high speed power at Paddington station.
Up front is a Paxman Valenta class 43 HST, behind it are 2 newer but less reliable Adelante DMU's. All were living on borrowed time, the HST l... (more)