If you had said to me some thirty-five years ago,

when I was living in and photographing trains in this area, that I would be excited when an HST passed I would have laughed! With respect to them, I did take some images at the time but then they were in the classic 'flying banana' livery rather than this smart Crosscountry paint job. 43321 leads the 13.25 Plymouth to Edinburgh Waverley 1S53 service past Croome Perry Wood on a stunning summer afternoon. The 981 feet high Bredon Hill can be seen in the background. Amongst other things, it featured in A. E. Housman's 1896 anthology, A Shropshire Lad.