Prior to our trip, I had written down the Crosscountry HST workings hoping that we would be able to see at least one following our visit to the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway. I thought that we would miss the 1S51 12.25 Plymouth to Glasgow Central at Ashchurch for Tewkesbury but it was running a little late so power car 43304 is seen leading the train through the station. Currently, there are calls for some of the redundant GW HST sets to be used by Crosscountry in order to bolster their poor and overcrowded trains both on this route and the Birmingham to Reading and south coast services.
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