43185 Badminton 8th February 1996
On a delightful snowy morning 43185 heads for Paddington with a service from South Wales shortly after passing through Badminton on 8th February 1996. The power car took part in the last day of HST operations at Paddington on 18th May 2019 having been re-vinyled into this livery from First Great Western blue.
43185 was new to traffic as one half of Cross Country set 253052 in February 1982. It ended up as a spares doner for ScotRail and was scrapped in August 2024 at Lowmac Alloys, Irvine
Pentax 6 x 7 Slide Scan
© Neil Higson
43185 Badminton 8th February 1996
On a delightful snowy morning 43185 heads for Paddington with a service from South Wales shortly after passing through Badminton on 8th February 1996. The power car took part in the last day of HST operations at Paddington on 18th May 2019 having been re-vinyled into this livery from First Great Western blue.
43185 was new to traffic as one half of Cross Country set 253052 in February 1982. It ended up as a spares doner for ScotRail and was scrapped in August 2024 at Lowmac Alloys, Irvine
Pentax 6 x 7 Slide Scan
© Neil Higson