Even the staff are getting in on the act recognising

the historical nature of the next six weeks or so prior to the demise of the HST operating as a full-length train that is on inter-regional services. This had been our guard on the 1V44 06.12 Leeds to Plymouth who crouches down in the pouring rain to take his own photograph of this iconic piece of British engineering! He was probably not born back in 1976 when they entered service between here at Bristol and Paddington (as well as South Wales of course) but such is their enduring appeal some forty-seven years later! I suspect that there will be many other people photographing the two CrossCountry diagrams over the coming few weeks prior to their demise.