High Speed @ Chinnor?
Ex East Midlands Trains now DATS (Data Acquisition & Testing Services) Class 43 HST Power Car 43 066 arrives into Chinnor Station on the morning of 2nd April. The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway had brought in two of these DATS Class 43s for the spring diesel gala. However, 43 054 failed no sooner than it arrived leaving 43 066 to hold up one end of the SR EMU consist. On the 2nd April it ran with 50 008 on the rear end. And when the 31 failed it did an extra run leaving the 37 to soldier on alone to run around it's train at Princes Risborough.
I was sitting on the platform for this shot trying to keep out of everyone's way and it came out better than I thought. The Mrs looks on sitting on the platform bench in the sunshine. Needless to say the Class 43 consist was the more popular of the two trains running. Every time the HST power car was stopped at the platform a queue of people would form for a cab visit and by the end of the gala the horn will probably be worn out!
High Speed @ Chinnor?
Ex East Midlands Trains now DATS (Data Acquisition & Testing Services) Class 43 HST Power Car 43 066 arrives into Chinnor Station on the morning of 2nd April. The Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway had brought in two of these DATS Class 43s for the spring diesel gala. However, 43 054 failed no sooner than it arrived leaving 43 066 to hold up one end of the SR EMU consist. On the 2nd April it ran with 50 008 on the rear end. And when the 31 failed it did an extra run leaving the 37 to soldier on alone to run around it's train at Princes Risborough.
I was sitting on the platform for this shot trying to keep out of everyone's way and it came out better than I thought. The Mrs looks on sitting on the platform bench in the sunshine. Needless to say the Class 43 consist was the more popular of the two trains running. Every time the HST power car was stopped at the platform a queue of people would form for a cab visit and by the end of the gala the horn will probably be worn out!