The passenger experience offered by a Cross Country HST with its Mk. III stock is so much better than the cramped and noisy one on offer in a Voyager. Here, one of the TOC's HSTs descends from Whiteball past the village of Poole just outside of Wellington (Somerset). 43378 leads the 12.25 Plymouth to Glasgow Central service. This will not work under the wires on the WCML but will go via Derby, Sheffield, York, Newcastle and finally across the Central Belt from Edinburgh to its destination. Some eight years after I took this photograph, I travelled on an HST in the final months of their operation with this power car leading, see....
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