43484 brings up the rear of the 18.37 Corby to London St. Pancras HST working. It is seen passing Irchester having just made its Wellingborough stop. On a dull spring evening in a rather monotonous green environment, the revised East Midlands Trains livery stands out rather well. Notice that this power car has buffer beams fitted indicating that it was one of the fourteen selected to work on the ECML as surrogate DVTs prior to the full introduction of the class 82 DVTs way back in 1987. When they were dispensed with the control equipment was removed but the buffer beams remained.
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