As the passengers walk to find their seats aboard the 16.00 Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads none even notice the celebrity HST power car that will be propelling them on their westward journey. This fresh paintwork is about as close as it gets to the as-built livery of 1976. Forty years ago, 253001 started thrashing up and down the GWML and what an amazing job it, and its classmates, have done since!
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