Class 43 Photos HST 🇬🇧, XPT 🇦🇺 & HST 🇲🇽

[jonny777]

43033 & 43133 1110 Pad-Pnz 16-10-88.jpg

 

Can anyone help with a location for this one? I've recorded it as 43033 and 43133 on the 1110 Paddington to Penzance on October 16th 1988 but I can't remember where it was taken. It must be a diversion as it's on a single line and it's definitely not Cornwall.

 

 

 

Could it be between Exeter and Yeovil Junction, before regaining the GW at Castle Cary?

 

 

 

Here is a cross country example at Stenson Junction in summer 1990. 

 

 

Edited June 17, 2018 by jonny777

[jonny777]

ECML this time. 

 

An HST overtakes a 313 near Welwyn in May 1992.

 

 

 

[jonny777]

An IC liveried unit passes Maidenhead on 17th Feb 1994

 

 

[SWT442]

Enjoying the pictures, especailly those of HST's in Swallow colours. Probably the best colour scheme to adorn the them.

 

Here's some more Great Western stuff.

 

Storming along the SWML, 43182 & 43175 head through Potbridge with 1C84 London Waterloo to Penzance - 28.12.2015

 

Seen at Denchworth, Diamond Jubilee branded 43186 leads a London bound working - 13.03.2013

 

During the first year of HST diversions into Waterloo, 43170 sits at the terminus awaiting time - 01.01.2011

 

Catching the light between the trees, 43188 & 43187, the first GWR HST in Green colours, heads through Old Basing with 1C82 London Waterloo to Penzance - 28.12.2015

 

Seen nearly 2 years later, and with the addition of "Y Cymro/The Welshman" decals, 43188 stands at Paddington with 1C82 to Penzance - 06.01.2017

 

Passing the Lock gates at Crofton, 43198 leads 1C79 London Paddington to Plymouth - 24.02.2015

 

Terminating at Cardiff Central, 43185 has just arrived on 1B17 from London Paddington - 31.05.2018

 

Andy.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

 

 

 

 

Here is a cross country example at Willington Junction in summer 1990. 

 

 

43*** willington junc 8:90.jpg

 

Being pedantic, the HST has just passed Stenson Junction. There isn't a "Willington Junction" in this area.

[Phil Mc]

4 pics of the Midland Mainline Blue livery.

Showing different types of lights clusters, and variations to the branding.

 

 

Cheers,

Phil.

[Peter Kazmierczak]

The prototype in its first week in public service on the WR - May 1975. 

 

Here it approaches Bristol TM with the Padd - Weston-super-Mare leg of its then diagram:

Bristol - Padd - Weston - Padd - Bristol

 

 

[bgman]

Happened to waiting for my train home one evening in 2017 when I managed to get one of the new liveried Great Western HST's with hiccups as it takes off  to Paddington ! 

 

 

Seems the young gricers on the platform enjoyed it too !

[jonny777]

Being pedantic, the HST has just passed Stenson Junction. There isn't a "Willington Junction" in this area.

 

 

 

Thanks for the pedantry, Peter. I like to have these locations correct. 

 

I had just copied the wording on the slide mount. 

[rodent279]

Not the best of photos, but I was in a hurry to get both these units in the frame at the same time.

 

252001 and 253005 at Swindon, on 19th October 1976.

 

 

100211 252001 253005 SW 19:10:76.jpg

 

In the distance, behind the signal on the left, can be seen some class 24s waiting to be towed into the works for cutting up.

I've often wondered whether the prototype was still in service when the first production units entered service. Obviously it was.

[jbqfc]

unknown by john brace, on Flickr

 

43053 by john brace, on Flickr

 

43079 by john brace, on Flickr

 

unknown by john brace, on Flickr

 

43154 by john brace, on Flickr

[jonny777]

I'm not sure the prototype was actually on a revenue earning service in that photo, as it is stopped at signals on the through line IIRC. It may have been ECS. I have had a quick look through my notes for late 76/early 77 and I never saw it again (although I might have just missed it). 

 

I am not sure when it ran its last timetabled service on the GWML. I can't find any note of it during the summer of 1976, but at that time I was making an effort to see my last 24s further north, and so my visits to Slough/Reading were not too frequent. 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

There was a short period when the Cl.252 was in service alongside the first examples of Cl.253s. Can't recall, off the top of my head, when it retired from public use. 

[Commoner]

I'm not sure the prototype was actually on a revenue earning service in that photo, as it is stopped at signals on the through line IIRC. It may have been ECS. I have had a quick look through my notes for late 76/early 77 and I never saw it again (although I might have just missed it). 

 

I am not sure when it ran its last timetabled service on the GWML. I can't find any note of it during the summer of 1976, but at that time I was making an effort to see my last 24s further north, and so my visits to Slough/Reading were not too frequent. 

 

 

There was a short period when the Cl.252 was in service alongside the first examples of Cl.253s. Can't recall, off the top of my head, when it retired from public use. 

 

From my FB post a few weeks back on the same subject.  Hope it is of interest.  Kevin (Commoner)

From May 1976 the prototype HST had no diagrammed passenger work.  The power cars went to Derby RTC in to be married up with production trailers 42010/11/14/20, Mk3, 12140, Mk 2 13438 with Test Car 6, ADB975290 in preparation for test running to analyse the performance of the P8 tyre profile on the Mk3s.  The test rake returned to the Old Oak Common and was in regular use along the WR main line from the beginning of June to at least mid-August 1976. The WR was short of production sets for the commencement of 125mph service operation from 04/10/76 necessitating the reformation of the prototype in mid-September 1976.  From 04/10/76 it was diagrammed SX 08.00 Padd-Swan/12.00-Padd/16.00-Swan/20.00 Padd, SO 08.45 Padd-BTM/11.30 BTM-Padd/15.00 Padd-Swan/19.00 Swan-Padd. It was finally stood down in November 1976, by which time enough production sets were in hand to cover the diagrammed working. The last observation I have of it in traffic was 2/11/76. The set languished at OOC before briefly moving to S.P.Marsh in early February 1977. The power cars went to Derby Works mid-February 1977 while some of the trailers were stored at Worcester, pending conversion, with the remainder making their way to the RTC. 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Thanks Kevin; thought you'd know. 

 

It began public service on the WR on 5th May 1975 with the start of the new timetable. By 1980, some of the trailers, including the TRUK and TRSB, (still in original livery) were stored at St Mary's goods yard in Derby.

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[Peter Kazmierczak]

HST trailers at Derby Litchurch Lane.

 

The TRUB is new, so photo probably dates from August 1979 I think, or was it August 1978...…..

 

Edit - On reflection, this must be August 1978

 

Edited June 17, 2018 by Peter Kazmierczak

[jonny777]

Another Worting Junc/Battledown telephoto image.

 

This time 43065 is the leading power car heading east in Summer 1992. It is still difficult to believe this was over 25 years ago now. 

 

 

[robertcwp]

Here are a few from my collection, or in the case of more recent ones, my own photos:

 

HST-Prototype_Hornsey_1973 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

HST_Prototype_Reading_24-6-76_m by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

253003_Acton_10-9-76 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

43101-43115_Dringhouses_2-9-81 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

43091_KGX_11-88 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

HST_BarntGreen_1_24-7-90 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

43131_Reading_1-8-97 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

HST_Vauxhall_30-4-05 by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

 

43198_20170713_112225am by Robert Carroll, on Flickr

Edited June 17, 2018 by robertcwp

[jonny777]

Thanks Robert. I like that photo of the prototype at Reading on 24/6/76. I now understand why I did not see it, despite being there that day. Looking at the shadows, that would appear to be late morning, and I did not appear until late afternoon. Unfortunately I was on a course, and trying to study with temperatures of 35C outside was not easy. 

 

I was glad for a few hours on the station later in the day, in order to cool down somewhat. I didn't see any HSTs that evening, although (O/T, apologies) I did see D1054 and D1065. 

Edited June 17, 2018 by jonny777

[SGJ]

43017 entering Leeds railway station

 

[SGJ]

43020 at Leeds / Crewe

 

 

[SGJ]

43021 at I think Swansea Landore

 

[Peter Kazmierczak]

At Litchurch Lane, Derby, coupled to a rake of new trailers bound for the ER, is Crainentinny-based SC 43087. Note the upper-case "C" in the number; this contrasted with the APT-P power cars, which had a lower-case "C".

 

[Commoner]

At Litchurch Lane, Derby, coupled to a rake of new trailers bound for the ER, is Crainentinny-based SC 43087. Note the upper-case "C" in the number; this contrasted with the APT-P power cars, which had a lower-case "C".

 

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That's a really interesting shot Peter.  The power car has a rain strip below the windscreen and this mod wasn't fitted from new or at overhaul fleet wide until 1981.  A couple of WR power cars acquired the mod at overhaul, presumably on an experimental basis in the autumn of 1978, these being W43046/48, while W43028 also received it during a collision damage repair in October 1978.  Do you have an accurate date for the shot?  If new, it would be sometime in May 78, or if following overhaul sometime in May/June 1979.

Edited June 17, 2018 by Commoner

[luckymucklebackit]

A few more from me, first off - Crewe Works Open Day 1981 and a power car in the fabrication stage

 

 

UID rear power car at Sheildmuir passing a down class 90, we were waiting for a Duchess to appear on a southbound railtour, and some photographers were clearly prepared to risk life and limb to get the shot.

 

 

Motherwell station, 43100 on a northbound cross country working in the days before the dreaded vomiters

 

 

Another UID power car leaving platform 10 at Glasgow Central while a class 86 waits to leave on the West Coast Postal

 

 

Jim