HST power car 43139 'Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950-6 November 2004' waits at Gloucester station leading the 09.36 Paddington to Cheltenham FGW service. The driver has just changed ends to work the train in its reverse formation for the final few miles of its journey along the former Midland route to the Regency spa town. The HST is occupying approximately half of Gloucester's famous long platform at just over six hundred metres in length, the second-longest in the country.
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