The Journey Shrinker
That was a British Rail advertising slogan for its High Speed InterCity 125 trains that was current around the time of my vintage photograph. Just a couple of years old, HST unit 253 017 stands at the end of Platform 2 at London Paddington station. Just before the end of HST operation on the top-link expresses out of Paddington and King’s Cross, a couple of HST power cars and trains reverted to this original livery.
The HSTs caught the public’s imagination, transforming UK rail travel. To the very end, I thought that these charismatic trains were unsurpassed for style and comfort. I must have made hundreds of journeys for leisure and occasionally business, day trips to many far-flung destinations. Happily, the HST story is not over as reduced-formation sets have been retained for operations within the West Country and Scotland.
October 1979
Yashica FR-1 camera
Agfa CT18 film.
The Journey Shrinker
That was a British Rail advertising slogan for its High Speed InterCity 125 trains that was current around the time of my vintage photograph. Just a couple of years old, HST unit 253 017 stands at the end of Platform 2 at London Paddington station. Just before the end of HST operation on the top-link expresses out of Paddington and King’s Cross, a couple of HST power cars and trains reverted to this original livery.
The HSTs caught the public’s imagination, transforming UK rail travel. To the very end, I thought that these charismatic trains were unsurpassed for style and comfort. I must have made hundreds of journeys for leisure and occasionally business, day trips to many far-flung destinations. Happily, the HST story is not over as reduced-formation sets have been retained for operations within the West Country and Scotland.
October 1979
Yashica FR-1 camera
Agfa CT18 film.