Arriving at a very wet Birmingham New Street CrossCounty's 220033 works the 06.35 Bristol to Edingburgh 1S35 service. Unfortunately, these dreadful trains will be with us for the foreseeable future (as if twenty-two years isn't long enough!) with their ranks strengthened as the worn-out cascaded Class 221's arrive from Avanti later this year! This will precipitate the removal of HSTs from their network with them having worked on these interregional lines since 1981!
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