Image 45024 & 253010, unidentified up workings, Bristol TM station
45024 & 253010, unidentified up workings, Bristol TM station
45024 & 253010, unidentified up workings, Bristol TM station I love this shot, the new and modern HST sits in the bright sun just outside of Bristol Temple Meads' impressive train shed ready for a Paddington service. This puts the relatively old split-box 45 in the shade (literally!) The HST power car is 43021, which stayed on the Western Region all of its life until 2018 when it moved to Scotland to form part of their short sets. Steam heat 45024 had a less blessed life being withdrawn 3 years after this picture was taken and broken up at Swindon during 1983. PS This HST power car was the one that caught fire crossing the Tay Bridge on 28.02.25, an event that will have almost certainly precepitated its demise.
45024 & 253010, unidentified up workings, Bristol TM station I love this shot, the new and modern HST sits in the bright sun just outside of Bristol Temple Meads' impressive train shed ready for a Paddington service. This puts the relatively old split-box 45 in the shade (literally!) The HST power car is 43021, which stayed on the Western Region all of its life until 2018 when it moved to Scotland to form part of their short sets. Steam heat 45024 had a less blessed life being withdrawn 3 years after this picture was taken and broken up at Swindon during 1983. PS This HST power car was the one that caught fire crossing the Tay Bridge on 28.02.25, an event that will have almost certainly precepitated its demise.


I love this shot, the new and modern HST sits

in the bright sun just outside of Bristol Temple Meads' impressive train shed ready for a Paddington service. This puts the relatively old split-box 45 in the shade (literally!) The HST power car is 43021, which stayed on the Western Region all of its life until 2018 when it moved to Scotland to form part of their short sets. Steam heat 45024 had a less blessed life being withdrawn 3 years after this picture was taken and broken up at Swindon during 1983.

PS This HST power car was the one that caught fire crossing the Tay Bridge on 28.02.25, an event that will have almost certainly precepitated its demise.