I can't help but feel that the Class 170s would never have won anything in the design awards when judging them on the front end design but they have proved to be reliable and dependable workhorses. Their time is limited now with new units undergoing testing that will see Transport for Wales transforming their long-distance services such as this one, the 13.31 Manchester to Carmarthen train. With three TfW Rail staff chatting by the front of the train at Crewe 175106 pauses just thirty miles into its long (over two hundred miles in fact) journey to southwest Wales.
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