I am totally blaming Phil for telling me Camarthen instead of Cheltenham! (this is actually for real, we spoke off camera about where they were going, and this is what he told me. whoops!)

@jazeroth322

5 жыл бұрын

Fantastic video Geoff! Thank you so much for documenting this important piece of history. If I'd of known I'd of popped to Plymouth station to watch it come in :(. Will miss the long trains being pulled over the viaduct and across Brunels bridge over the tamar

@gadge3902

5 жыл бұрын

Easily confused CMN and CNM ;-) this went down the Golden Valley through Stroud and Stonehouse, where you got off on ATS and did a walkabout in 2017 :-)

@Whiggism

5 жыл бұрын

Geoff can you go to scotland and see the new referb HST and the replacement of the slam doors

@MTrains

5 жыл бұрын

The Flying banana Tour is going to Carmarthen so Technically you could be 2 weeks early? :P

@tonyjones9442

5 жыл бұрын

Hello from Wales. I was wondering.... I thought I heard someone say Caernarfon, then carmarthen. Both lost their stations under Beeching I think . We won't use the pro noun "Dr" for a man who did more damage to wales in 5 years than the Norman conquest did in hundreds.

My husband, Richard Samuels, drove the first train away - the 18:03 down to Plymouth. That was him and his mate Brian Hellyer on the horns.

@pennysamuels2086

5 жыл бұрын

It was, but he was very proud to have been chosen to drive it, Dogsgrove Blu. The four drivers who were chosen to drive the final four HSTs were all ex-BR drivers (always drivers: never previously guards) and were known as 'The Lost Boys'. 'The Lost Boys' nickname is given to drivers who started on the railway between 1968 and 1988 (before there was an aptitude test to become a driver) and they all served 5-year apprenticeships.

@KianCorrieCoolCorrie11

5 жыл бұрын

I got a photo of him at Plymouth whist he was posing for everyone 😂

@pennysamuels2086

5 жыл бұрын

Would it be possible for you to send me a copy, please Kian? I'd be very grateful. basketballer56000@hotmail.co.uk

@ChangesOneTim

5 жыл бұрын

What an honour for Richard - and a great memory for him to treasure. 👍

@crescountry234

4 жыл бұрын

Penny Samuels think you’re correct about the drivers bit. I know one of them from seeing him on the trains very often, he’s been working on the railway for years and years.

I proposed to my wife on a HST. She said yes ! Great video 👏🏻

@envirommc7059

5 жыл бұрын

Awwww

@w4rlockkk

5 жыл бұрын

Mathew Higgins now that’s a proposal if I’ve ever seen one

@djlawlz4041

5 жыл бұрын

How is this comment not pinned?

@not_lewis2649

3 жыл бұрын

What makes an HST Special:

@171trains

2 жыл бұрын

Great thats really cool hope u live happily together

That girl running with the train and shouting YAAAAAY

@kentthrashlover6756

5 жыл бұрын

Just goes to show it wasn't a boys day out!

@shawnli4746

5 жыл бұрын

Still waiting for the girl's mother to show up all amused on a KZread comment ;)

@hoagy_ytfc

5 жыл бұрын

"Race ya to Bristol" :)

@cbear80cs

5 жыл бұрын

Thats my daughter! Her dad is the engineer in the cab and engine room! I was behind her with my 4 year old son!

@cbear80cs

5 жыл бұрын

@@shawnli4746 it me!

Hi Geoff, I have no interest in trains whatsoever, but I came across one of your least used videos by chance. They way you put the video together is brilliant and you yourself are very captivating. I've found myself watching many of your videos and will continue to do so. I'm even starting to look forward to the next time I get on my usual SWT service to Waterloo as you have spiked an interest in the rail network I never knew I had. Keep doing what your doing, it's great.

@RandomTFLupdates-PEPS_FOR_LIFE

Жыл бұрын

I was kinda the same but I already liked them and I came from Londonist

@laurenceskinnerton73

10 ай бұрын

Interesting.

Trains and teapots, some how so quintessentially British

@mazdaman2315

3 жыл бұрын

I love both and I’m American

Geoff - how lucky were you! Not only getting a cab ride and an engine room tour whilst on the move, but you managed to do it on the last HST to leave Paddington! I pass my thanks to the staff at GWR who made that possible, was fantastic to see it. But, a sad day, i am a decade older than the HST, so can remember them from day one - loved them then, still love them now. Still by far one of the most comfortable trains i have ever travelled on. Will never forget the first time i rode on one back in the very early 80's, just stunned at how smooth and quiet it was in the carriage when we pulled out of Paddington - would not have known we were moving if i had not looked out of the window. I will miss them - can't beat a proper train that's got it's engines at either end, with no noisy motors and power units situated under the passenger carriages.

I'm not a train enthusiast, I've never been on any of those trains, I've only ever been in London 3 times, I'm sat at home in Germany and I still got excited watching the video 😂

@TheGodsrighthandman

5 жыл бұрын

*excited . . . Exited means 'to leave' - "I exited the building"

@TvTriangel

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheGodsrighthandman oh sorry, must have been a typo. Gonna correct it right away. Thanks though 😊

In many ways the 125's were the single biggest improvement in passenger trains of the 20th Century. The fact they train and coaches were designed as a single unit made them far better than the loco hauled diesel services; and the fact they were faster and for universal long distance services made them better than the various pullman like services. There may never again be such a massive improvement.

@Mgameing123

Жыл бұрын

Why improve when you can downgrade?

3:28 "Is that man carrying a teapot?" This comment just won the internet - congrats Geoff.

@geofftech2

5 жыл бұрын

turned out he was the driver! i asked to speak to him, but he didn't want to be on video. and yes - carries his own teapot so that he can make a proper brew. i totally applauded him!

@aldhous

5 жыл бұрын

@@geofftech2 No wonder you were so keen to get in the cab. All makes sense now... "One lump or two, Geoff?" :-)

@paulsengupta971

5 жыл бұрын

How do they make tea with these new fangled diesel trains which don't have a tap from the boiler?!

@ChilternTransportProductions

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Sengupta There’s a little room opposite the cycle space on IETs. I can’t remember what it’s called but I remember there being some sort of metallic flask I think where they heat water for hot drinks in there and just use that. And then they just serve drinks from a trolley

My 80 years as an enthusiast has taught me that the thing that is being replaced is the most perfect in existence, while its replacement is absolute rubbish - and it has stayed true all that time. I can remember the introduction of the HSTs which were called "trams" which were replacing proper trains. I don't doubt that the same will apply to the IETs.

@highpath4776

5 жыл бұрын

On Western services were the existing trains Mk1s and Diesel Hydralics and Warships as the main propolsion method? ( The Western/Midland Pullmans having been withdrawn earlier ), The HSTs coaches probably the best I/C design for accomodation for the standard passenger with luggage. The method of propoltion does not really matter so much, though a big Valtenta does help. The trains were designed as a bit of a stopgap with the idea that the APT would be the main train for the future, but they became reliable, and fast - generally ! I forgot, the Class 47s, probably the best traction units around .

@arch9enius

4 жыл бұрын

@@highpath4776 I think it was class 47s and 50s they replaced. Might have been some 'Westerns' still hanging n.

@uzaiyaro

4 жыл бұрын

Time has a funny way of changing perceptions, though. You grew up on the old trains, but the new generation will grow up on these trains, which will themselves become old, and there will eventually be the same nostalgia that people feel today, 40 years from now. I grew up on the QR EMUs here in Queensland, but the younger generation will grow up on the new rolling stock when their time comes.

@justandy333

10 ай бұрын

To an extent you're right. I've travelled on both, The biggest complaint about the IETs is their seats are rubbish. The HST seats were far more comfortable. In other regards, smoothness, acceleration, quietness etc the IETs are far better. Just the penny pinching seats need an upgrade.

I will miss seeing them whilst driving the "purple trains" but I did get to do some route learning via cab rides on a HST and that will live with me forever because those trains are legends.

Fantastic to see Sir Kenneth Grange standing right next to his namesake, in the original blue/yellow, always was my favourite livery 💙💛 Great video, especially in the engine room!

Interesting comment on will future generations miss the IET, if we went back to 1976 and asked the enthusiasts then if they'd miss the HSTs when they went, they'd probably say no whilst lamenting the loss of their diesel hydraulics and Castles and Kings

@100SteveB

5 жыл бұрын

Sad thing is that i doubt the IET's will last even half the life that the HST did. And because of that i doubt they will build up the following the 43's did.

@aifrench14

5 жыл бұрын

@@100SteveB the Westerns, Warships and Hymeks hardly had long careers and look how much they're loved....

@rolandharmer6402

5 жыл бұрын

The HST really caught people’s imagination. I can remember 1976. I think that people loved them from the start. The last shot shows how good the Sir Kenneth Grange’s design and his original livery was. They were the business!

@paulsengupta971

5 жыл бұрын

Yep, I was a kid when the 125s came out and they were fantastic. I remember going to London and back on one from Cardiff, it was just the most amazing experience. Prior trains had been dirty, smelly, clunky, poor suspension. The new 125s were so quiet, smooth and comfortable, not to mention fast. The new replacements now aren't half as comfortable. The trend on both trains and aeroplanes is to make the seats less padded, less comfortable. It's not a good trend.

@ChilternTransportProductions

5 жыл бұрын

Paul Sengupta Yet most new Buses have done away with rock hard seats! How ironic is that?

I will miss the HSTs. My own HST memory is from when I was around 8 years old and my Dads' truck broke down in South Wales. After being towed to Cardiff,it was discovered the engine had dropped a valve and we were going nowhere. So,a bus into town was followed by a ride to Bristol on the then nearly new HST. To say this was a treat for a train mad 8 year old was an understatement! They have certainly served their public well and deserve their place in railway history.

I remember the HSTs from the 80s and 90s. Sad day...!!! Thanks for documenting these last trains! One for the memories!

Always as a kid whenever I found myself at the station Id love the sight of the HST's flying by. Such an iconic and unique design with an appearance half-way between the TGV trains in France and the little trains of Thameslink's past.

4:51 I'm the guy in the T-Shirt :D ... Did you like it Geoff, Was a Homemade Effort.

@geofftech2

5 жыл бұрын

Great t-shirt, yes! :-D (making something yourself is always a cool thing to do. people that make things are great)

@MTrains

5 жыл бұрын

@@geofftech2 Cheers ... Good to see you last night. Definitely a great show by GWR, an Evening to remember!

Hi My son got to despatch a train with a paddle and whistle at Lancaster Station yesterday and it made his day, month, year. Thanks to all

Last HST... Not lived in the UK for 20 years now... Love the cheering for the beers being available. I also used to remember the cheese toasties from the buffet on British trains. And the almond croissants from the little shops on the station concourses. Memories.

5:06 there is an all the stations shirt in the background

@mcollier4566

5 жыл бұрын

There were a few around!

@edfielden

5 жыл бұрын

@@geofftech2 :)

@stevemann1681

5 жыл бұрын

@@geofftech2 nice to see a Pilning Station friend on here! 👍🏻 Hello Ed! 👋🏻

Great to see so many positive, happy people bidding a fond farewell and so many well-known faces too! I grew up with the HSTs in the 80s when I was spotting. They had and still have a fantastic sound, the design is such a classic and the 43s have always been a solid performer. Well done for GWR for going to such efforts to give them a great send off. Thanks for sharing the day with us Geoff.

U lucky Bugger! Not only got to ride in the cab of a HST but got to have a poke around in the engine room whilst its blasting away at full chat! What a fantastic experience, One you'll never forget no doubt.

I spent eleven months living on the UK in 1982/83 whilst 10 years old. My father had a a scholarship to the London University and was a train enthusiast and a history teacher. It seemed like every weekend whilst we we there we would head off on a train to some location to look at some old thing (my 10 year old coming out), but once I discovered the trip was going to be on a 125 the weekend improved immeasurably. The sense of speed, power and mystique these 125's imposed on a child don't think will be equalled, and have left me with an enduring memory.

that's amazing. Props to GWR for letting you ride in the cab and see the engine.

That engine room was amazing !

As a young child, living in Canada, my grandparents (living in London) got me a Hornby 125 set, and it was always my favourite train on the layout. A few years later in 1980 moved to London aged 12, and shortly thereafter went to boarding school near Swindon - the 125 became very much part of my life, together with its unbelievably smelly brakes. Most of the last 20 years I’ve lived in Bristol, and can’t count the number of times I’ve used the train to London. I can’t pretend I ever really _loved_ the HST, but it’s been such a part of my life, I’ll miss it desperately.

What a fantastic farewell, thanks for capturing it. Many fond memories growing up in the eighties watching these all over the country.

My father was on one of the first Press and Parliament outings of the HST, many moons ago, so this reminded me of him and how excited he was to travel on it.

Great video. And good capture of yesterday's events. They will be missed by many.

An end to an amazing era,many memories of travelling with my mum to somerset in the holidays in the 70's and 80's...when they had the valenta engine...my favourite class of all time...wonderful video😀😎😎😎

Absolutely amazing.... What a sad day though. ..I'll never forget the sound of that Ruston Paxman engine and the speed !!!!. And i still remember the front of the old Hornby catalogue from 77' with the then new HST coming out of the tunnel mouth !!!. I'm looking forward to getting my N gauge GWR set asap....Totally iconic and can still hold there own against class 91's (225's), Pendalino's and class 800's !!!

Took one to St. Austell in 1995, got stuck behind a broken train just exiting Dawlish tunnel. Spent 45 minutes looking out at the most incredible scenery.

@brucewilliams8714

5 жыл бұрын

I remember a very stormy day near Dawlish. Our HST was running wrong line because the waves were damaging the down trackbed. Grabbed a quick shot out a door window of a wave breaking over our train.

@thelostusername5013

5 жыл бұрын

I went up the dawlish line on holiday and it is so lovely

It is sad. Let's hope some units will be preserved. They are iconic.

Well done, great video. It really shows the enthusiasm you and so many others have for the HST.

In 1982 I was a lowly cadet for NZ Railways and holidayed in Australia for a few weeks. I fronted up to NSWGR head office to scrounge the three free tickets I was entitled to as a reciprocal deal, but it was so rarely used they had no idea and instead gave me an unlimited pass with guards van privileges, and a letter of introduction that got me cab rides across the state. I was in the cab on one of the first trips of the XPT - Australia's copy of the HST - to Dubbo and return, in the fireman's seat most of the way, and went through the engine room while we were going flat out too. Thanks for bringing back some amazing memories.

The railway ticketing system needs to go: Standard Class First Class Rear Cab Class

@emmaclarke9243

4 жыл бұрын

£2000 per ticket LOL

@TheArkamedBat

3 жыл бұрын

I want rear cab Class ticket

@TheArkamedBat

3 жыл бұрын

Also front cab 9990£ and then engine room at 1£

@ashleyjiscool

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheArkamedBat engine room should cost £100

Amazing video Geoff, a tribute to the best class of locomotive ever built in this country, ill share my greatest memory of this loco. As a 4 year old I was invited into the cab of a class 43 on New Street Station Birmingham and I sat in the drivers seat. Just before he was due to leave the driver asked me if I wanted to go with him to Penzance, not expecting me to say yes apparently I cried for an hour when I had to leave the cab. Gutted I couldn't be at Paddington on Saturday Andy

Amazing, Geoff. I've stood on the platform at Slough, on vacation from Canada, and was truly impressed by the wind and the sound from the HST at speed. Great to see the inside of the engine room. Fantastic video.

That was excellent, Geoff. A very well documented memo of a great occasion. You even got into the engine compartment! Thanks for doing all that - I've never known time to go so fast . . .

Brilliant. Thanks Geoff. I was in the UK when the “Inter-City 125” started operating. I have memories as a young teen of being on the platform, hearing that distinctive horn and then the “woooosh” of the train and the “crack” as the last cab went past. Never rode on one but have memories of seeing and “feeling” them rush past many platforms. God’s Speed HST

@mercifulzeus01

5 жыл бұрын

Let us however not speak of the TV advertising campaign of the early 80's encouraging people to use the 125's ...

@SaturnCanuck

5 жыл бұрын

Not sure what that has to do with my comment

@SilverCanary1

5 жыл бұрын

Was it massively sexist? As sexist as the HST was loud (a la valenta)...?

@hartstukken

5 жыл бұрын

what's the 'crack' you're talking about someone link me a video

@paulsengupta971

5 жыл бұрын

Regarding the advertising campaigns, I think it's because they feature Jimmy Saville...

Dad: Why are you crying so loud son? Me:

One of if not my favourite of your video's Geoff. So much enthusiasm and genuine passion from everyone and it's great that you help others plug their sites. I want your job!

I went on 43093 and 43188 yesterday on the 1300 to Bristol and it’s 1530 return. I saw everything, and was standing on P3 about to watch 43002 come in, before a stupid IET come in. So I had to run to the footbridge and watch it from there. If it weren’t for the brilliant gate staff, I wouldn’t have seen that. I even got to go in the cab of 43172 and 43185. An absolutely brilliant day out and high credits to GWR for this.

I didn't know I wanted to do that till I just did it LOL That's quiet some access you got there that was fantastic What a noise imagine if it had been a oaxman though WOW But excellent R,I.P HST we'll miss you Not a bad Run for a stop-gap

my HST memory is when the engine caught fire and we had to emergency stop in the middle of box tunnel.

@superchatoalien4905

5 жыл бұрын

I know that shouldn't happen never again but I wanted to experience honestly.

@KianCorrieCoolCorrie11

5 жыл бұрын

So the engine caught fire and instead of exiting the tunnel where there is fresh air. The driver thought “oh I’ll just stop slap bang in the middle”

@KianCorrieCoolCorrie11

5 жыл бұрын

So the engine caught fire and instead of exiting the tunnel where there is fresh air. The driver thought “oh I’ll just stop slap bang in the middle”

@ahoyittttt7802

2 жыл бұрын

Ive been on one when it broke down we were stuck in the dark for hours.

Great video Geoff! So sad to see them go I will always cherish my memories of the HST!

Thanks for the video. Have many memories of the HSTs both on board and watching / listening from platforms. I was last in the UK in 2017 (from Australia) and enjoyed many trips on GWR both in the west country and in / out of Paddington.

I hope one day we can make our own trains again. I love the Japanese and their engineers, but I think that it is important to the pride of the country that we can show the world true British engineering

@lon3don

5 жыл бұрын

At its best. The Japanese train isn't a patch on the HST. 1. You can't walk the full length, important if you are meeting someone on the train. When running diesel, it is slower that the HST. It's not as comfortable and maybe more noisy. The Italians took the wonderful APT and ran with it, the pendolino is truly fantastic. I recently took one from Manchester to London and hardly knew I was moving.

Thanks so much for this fantastic video Geoff. It's a privilage to watch. What a great atmosphere and an emotional day. It feels like you're looking back through 40 years of Great Western Mainline History when you look at the four iconic liveried HST power cars all lined up together at Paddington before they were due to depart. That was a great sight. In answer to your question. I'm not sure the IET's in the future will be missed in the same way as the HST will be now. They don't have the same character and the design, sound as well as the longevity and reliability of the 125 is what made them loved by so many. Many Rail Enthusiasts don't think the IET'S will last as long as the HSTs have done as well

@roderickjoyce6716

5 жыл бұрын

That's what they said about the Westerns and 47s when they took over from the Kings and Castles, and about the HSTs when they took over from the 47s. I'm sure there were Victorian enthusiasts standing on the Lawn back in 1892 who said the same about the standard gauge :D

@Mgameing123

Жыл бұрын

They forgot 2 important liveries. First Great Western's OG livery and First Dynamic.

Chris here from Montreal, Canada and I just discovered your great channel. I lived in the UK for three years back a decade ago and I vividly remember the HST’s since I was commuting from OXF to BTH (change at DID) every workdays. These trains were rocking somehow perfectly since it happened once in a while that I missed the Didcot Jump to the Cotswold Line napping, ending up at Reading!! Fond memories!!

I honestly love your videos and it's really great to see you so happy in the cab. I've only started using the trains from the north-west into London so I never got to experience these trains.

That's cool that you got to go inside the engine room and ride a GWR HST before it moves to ScotRail

@Whiggism

5 жыл бұрын

Avery The Cuban-American Most of them already are in scot rail i saw loads at dundee

@Great_WesternTVFan

5 жыл бұрын

@@Whiggism yep. How about geoff can make a video of a scotrail hst

@oakridgecrossover3359

5 жыл бұрын

Scot rail have all of their HSTs

@Whiggism

5 жыл бұрын

West greens central no not all some HST’s will serve the west coast but only has 4 or 5 coaches

@peerlessbreton7182

5 жыл бұрын

Just exactly how many people do you have notifications on?

the IETs are wonderful though, when your're a getting train back from Oxford or further and when you reach didcot it's so refreshing to hear the sound of the engines dying then just near-silent except for that lovely VF-Pulsing noise.

@arfski

5 жыл бұрын

Well if the engine was up front where it belonged instead of being under your feet you wouldn't hear it either! ;)

@KerbalRocketry

5 жыл бұрын

@@arfski Yep, locomotive hauled trains are in general the absolute best for noise, when it comes to multiple units you can try to avoid the engined carriages you still have to know which they are and you're only ever really one carriage away while for loco hauled you can be several. Hears hopeing to the great western mainline electricifcation finally being finished and maybe the cross country route

@ahoyittttt7802

2 жыл бұрын

Not at all, the seats are uncomfortable the train inside and outside is already falling apart! Very loud annoying brakes and very loud in the train on diesel, overall not a good ride they should of just refurbished the full length hsts with the new doors like the castle class. So far I HATE the gwr era we don’t even have fgwSummertracks anymore.. the company doesn’t do anything fun anymore sadly

I really love all your interviews Geoff! So much fun to watch.

Hahaha Geoff, what a wonderful video! I especially loved the part in the engine room, what an experience with all my speakers at full volume! Thanks for sharing and cheers from Vienna!

WE'LL MISS YOU CLASS 43 HST GWR

"This is Adam! ... You don't know Adam yet-" Yes I do. He's one of the SLIPs guys :P

@Electra_1203

5 жыл бұрын

Yup, good old Adam. Im sure Chris wasn't at this event, what with his DEATH's series XD

@lon3don

5 жыл бұрын

Madam I'm Adam

Great piece of film Geoff Marshall! Nice to see and indeed hear the great voice of Nigel Harris! Best regards from Germany!

SO HAPPY YOU MADE THIS VIDEO GEOFF!! I wasn't there on Saturday, but I did take a special trip down to Newton Abbot on Wednesday aboard a HST, and soaked up the beautiful Dawlish sea wall. Such a lovely video, well done - and I'm definitely not jealous about the cab/engine room ride!

return me the HST soft seats, the hardness of IET seat is...😭😭😭

@ianmurray250

5 жыл бұрын

Try the Mk3 coaches on Chiltern Rail between Birmingham Moor St. & Marylebone - an improvement on the original BR seats

@georgeprout42

5 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the continuous automatic announcements on the IET. Argh! 🎧

@richardtalbot8769

5 жыл бұрын

And a decent first class!

@TheArkamedBat

3 жыл бұрын

Is even poor Adelante

I saw 43198 and 43002 ‘sir Kenneth Grange’ at Cardiff yesterday. Very sad 😢

What an amazing sight at Paddington! The departure of the last four GWR HST's was seen almost as equal to the end of steam in Britain! My HST travel memories are limited as I am Australian and have so far only been to the UK once, but I very much enjoyed rides to Didcot and later Bristol. Well done Geoff and GWR! 😍

Great work Geoff. I just love your enthusiasm for what you do.

RIP HST [from paddington] :( I can still go to KGX for my HST train to the north:)

Ah the HST - greatest British diesel, and I say that as a Deltic fan!

Being in "the states" I have never gotten to ride an HST yet I feel a bit of sadness to see it retired... must be the great job done with the video. Well done.

I think there's moments that you were speechless you were just so excited to be able to do that fantastic thanks for sharing again hello from the US

A British classic! Will be missed. :)

Nooo!! I’m so sad! I loved the HSTs and even though I’m from Ireland I was lucky enough to go on one! Great video!

Great video. Happy memories of travelling HST's when I first went to London on my own in the late Eighties.

Thanks for sharing Geoff Absolutely brilliant video and a joy to watch just a shame this is the demise of our beloved HST 125’s Just love them and I remember climbing all over them at Old Oak open days 40yrs ago 😢 Great memories you’ve captured 👍 All the best Garry 😉

Paddington will look so diffrent with out a class 43 in the platform. the last time i went to dawlish 43 002 Sir Kenneth Grange pulled our train historical day. 800 era begins

Thankfully they're still a frequent sight on the Midland Mainline, for a few more months at least!

Thanks again Geoff for a brilliant video. My 1st HST memory when i was about 14 was photographing them at speed through a closed station near Rothwell, Northampton

That was a great video! Thanks, Geoff!

I remember seeing the prototype HST at Weston-super-Mare as a kid in the 1970s - it looked really futuristic compared to the existing locos.

@adammcguire3935

5 жыл бұрын

Prototype HST 41001 has a mainline certificate again. But then maybe you already knew that? I think it can be seen regularly at the Great Central Railway in Nottingham in its original livery.

@ahoyittttt7802

2 жыл бұрын

So glad they didn’t keep the prototype look 🤮🤢

R.i.p the intercity 125s and the rest of the HSTS you will be missed I would have come to see it but I was away

@AnonYmous-dh2zt

5 жыл бұрын

Possibly not, Railfreight might be buying some to haul freight

@AlongPreservedLines

5 жыл бұрын

Coby Utting that would be cool but it would look weird if you get what I mean

@beckster181

5 жыл бұрын

they still run the Aussie mod HST here in Aus

@Jack-ii8vi

5 жыл бұрын

Aren't LNER Keeping them?

@nathanw9770

5 жыл бұрын

I hope XC buy some

Many an hour spent in the cab of one of these great pieces of engineering. Will be missed. Great video geoff

I really enjoyed this video. Wished I could seen them on there last day of service. Thanks for sharing

My HST memory is of being in Durham in the late 1970s, and being able to hear the Valenta engine scream all around the city centre.

@Mortimer50145

5 жыл бұрын

I remember going from Bristol to Reading when I was going home one weekend from university, and after I got off at Reading, I ran to the front (lugging a heavy hold-all of my week's washing!), to listen to the train setting off: there was the characteristic throbbing roar and screeching turbo-whistle of the front power-car , which gradually got fainter as it got further away, then the rear power car got louder and louder, passed in a cloud of diesel exhaust and then receeded into the distance. Quite an experience to be next to an HST when it is setting off. Will we enthuse about the HST's replacements in the same way? We already lament the fact that modern carriages haven't managed to crack the simple task of lining up all the seats with the windows.

And to think 40 years ago we were all at Paddington cursing the HST's because they were displacing the class 50's.

@robertwilloughby8050

4 жыл бұрын

And the "Westerns" too. And later they replaced the 45's and 46's on NE-SW service.

Brilliant video mate, looking forward to viewing more of your stuff, I'm hooked 😎❤💯✊

I sent this to 15 rail friends in Canada. I was in Paddington on a Friday afternoon in August 1965 when Clun Castle pulled the last steam hauled express out to Banbury. Only the British can generate this feeling over rail. Great video, thank you as always.

And that's the end of the line of the HST out London Paddington. R.I.P to the GWR HST's.

Film yourself in the back cab driver's seat. Run the footage backwards and 'hey presto!'

@diamonddave2622

5 жыл бұрын

Don't forget to flip the video to give you LH running.

Absolutely Fabulous Geoff - thanks for the memory - fair brought a tear to my eye 😥 Find it soon @4RailTrail! 👋

Oh man the feels. Nice one Geoff, and wow the size of those engines!

Damn the HSTs are already gone now? So fast, time just flies 😨

@AndrewCowell50

5 жыл бұрын

Come to the East Midlands, they're still going strong!

@fetchstixRHD

5 жыл бұрын

Andrew Cowell: I think the first ever HST I got was actually an EMT one, back in 2015. I was pretty late to riding one, but they’re still legendary trains!

@TheSniper9752

5 жыл бұрын

Greater anglia also use the Class A on their route up to Norwich. Proper great HST, even with the classic slide down windows on the doors!

@norbitonflyer5625

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSniper9752 They're not HSTs - same carriages, but pulled or propelled by an electric locomotive. Their replacements are on the way too.

@k1an24

5 жыл бұрын

@@TheSniper9752 they are class 90 locos with class 82 dvts and mk3 coaches which are soon to be replaced with bombardier/staedler fleet they have the same coaches as a hst but feel nothing like one

Class 43 In service 43 years Number of views 43k Nice coincidence! EDIT very soon after posting this, the views went beyond 43k.

Thanks for catching that, Geoff. I come from near Didcot and so HSTs were part of our scenery as kids, and rode them 100s of times to and from Paddington. Thankfully I live in Sheffield now where EMT have a number of 43s so all is not lost. It is a shame they didnt have a power car with the original Valenta engine, I used to love those revving up in Paddington, the sound under the glass roof there was incredible. Great video and thanks again.

Absolutely amazing video to commemorate an icon of the railways, these shall be dearly missed. I was lucky enough to ride on the last service from Swindon Bristol Temple Meads and was truly a train enthusiast service. When waiting for my train back to Cardiff, a Classic short set pulled in from Cardiff.

We will never know if Geoff made it home ... until the next video

11:36 Maybe not. Class 43 is a true beauty, while some other trains are not. GreaterAnglia is replacing its Liverpool St to Cambridge service (currently run by Class 317) with newer Class 720, and the last Class 317 departing Liverpool Street will be Q4 2020. I don't miss Class 317 at all, and I want Class 720 to come faster.

@nathanw9770

5 жыл бұрын

You gotta appreciate the 317s motors though, they were screamers!

Hi.Geoff.My name is Phil Holt.I did 50yrs on the footplate at edgeley shed as a fireman I finished my time out at longsight as a driver and I drove a number of HSTS in my time they were fun to drive But I liked my time as a fireman in steam days Regards.Phil.

Great video, really enjoyed watching although with a hint of sadness. I’m gonna miss the sound of the wonderful HSTs when I’m at Paddington. Cheers 🍻

thumbs up if you had HST Hornby train set

Already ? This is sad...

Thank you for this video, Geoff. A bittersweet moment, for sure. The InterCity 125 started running when I was nine, and we would often ride from Paddington to Neath to visit my Nana. My favorite memory is my dad splurging on dinner service in the restaurant car after my brother and I had begged for what felt like years, but was probably one of our first trips. Roast beef and potatoes on British Rail China and white linen-absolute magic.

West coast main line in the late 90's Preston to London and back, many a time as it went from BR to Virgin, didn't even know they were still running, not seen one for ages. Thanks for the memories.