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Inter-City
This Livery now a thing of the past.Most shots here will be during the transition period when various identities made up different sets.Power-Cars here however will aways be in I/C Livery.
A rather sad shot really.This is 43008 in Inter-City' colours along with 43007 in 'Original' style on the rear making their final journey in normal revenue earning service.They are to be removed at Plymouth and prepared in readiness for a farewell railtour at the end of September.Arriva-XC liveried examples will take their place on the booked return working. So here is '1V50' the 06:06 from Edinburgh to Plymouth viewed at Parson Street in Bristol....Thankfully it was a superb full sun day for this fairly historic albeit quite sad working.-------------5 september 2023-----
43007 in the original livery along with its partner 43008 are viewed at Shaldon Bridge making its probably final revenue earning duty going north from Plymouth (12:27 off) as '1S51' to Glasgow-Central.All very sad really,after the end of the summer service these trains along with the GWR 4-car versions are set to be withdrawn leaving all trains west of Exeter in daylight in the hands of Voyagers,IET's and mundane DMU's. I will probably never visit this area ever again!
..4 september 2023..
You couldn't have asked for a better day to picture the final 06:12 from Leeds to Plymouth '1V44' to be powered by this 'celeb' 43008 in the older Inter-City colours.43007 in the original livery was on the back-end.Here viewed at the iconic location of Langstone Rock nr Dawlish Warren but like everywhere else on the Network it is slowly being consumed by rampant bush growth.The westward looking shot here is now gone completely!
..4 september 2023..
Inter-City-43099 draws a set of Virgin coaches round the curve at Shaldon Bridge nr Teignmouth in Devon on a northbound XC service.This scene gone forever now,43099 now MTU fitted 43399 working for 'Eastern'.Coaches could be anywhere? and a ridiculous H&S fence has ruined this view from the road bridge.Funny how the railway worked quite happily for over 150 years without the need for such OTT fencing until some jobsworth decided to try and justify his overblown salary! ..31 july 1999..
Given the current lockdown in the UK it will probably be Winter before we are all able to move around freely again.....Sad but that's the reality of the situation...So here in an Inter-City express from Paddington going to the West Country,probably Plymouth or Penzance.Lead P/C being 43005 viewed at the Junction at Fairwood nr Westbury...
..8 february 1994..
Odd combination liveries are nothing new on First Group operated HST's.Here is an original Inter-City liveried 43181 hauling a set of the then new Great Western Green/Cream sets.I have to say a much more pleasing look than the current incarnation of plain dark Olive-Green!The working is going west obviously from Paddington but destination not known.Now in 2017 a single Power-car has been repainted in this style as a homage to the class before being replaced by IEP's(Whatever they are).Also this location is now inaccessible, being well fenced off with the dreaded 8ft high spiky palisade fencing!
..19 september 1998..
Doyen of the production HST-Fleet 43002 stands in Bristol-Temple Meads having just arrived on a service for London Paddington.
..26 february 1998..
Now this is a bit of a rarity! For just a very short period this unofficial livery was running on 43028.I think it was some thing to do with the 'Irish Rail' An .However it was removed within days so pictures of it are probably quite rare.I certainly only ever saw it just this once here at Holywell-Junction on the North-Wales Coast with a Holyhead to Euston service.This location still showed remnants of the 4-track section that was so necessary a few years before to cope with all the traffic this line then produced.