In the gathering afternoon gloom at Old Oak Common, 800004 speeds eastwards with the 15.41 Bedwyn to Paddington service now within two miles of its destination. The IET is passing three further units, with only 800315 identifiable, that are stabled at the former HS1 North Pole depot. Just before this train passed we had been observing a fox skulking about on the tracks in the foreground that seemed totally unphased by the passing of the trains and living cheek by jowl with the vast HS2 building work taking place all around it!
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