With a stormy backdrop 43009 'First Transforming Travel' is lit by the setting sun as it leads a First Great Western Intercity 125 across Moulsford Bridge. The bridge, designed by Brunel structure... (more)

In the days when Leicester still had a busy loco shed and semaphore signals, 43104 leads a southbound HST set past the shed in 1983.

The 08.27 Plymouth to Paddington HST has just passed Teignmouth on the South Devon coast formed of InterCity 125 set No 253 014 on a glorious summer day in August 1983. These very same trains are ... (more)

An FGW HST set with power car 43140 in the lead passes the classic Western Region location of Little Bedwyn lock on the Kennet and Avon canal with 1A76 06:55 Plymouth - Paddington

A westbound FGW HST passes Dawlish in Devon as children play on the beach on a lovely warm September sunday in 2008

Clouds of brake dust swirl around the rear power car of an FGW HST set and are picked out by shafts of sunlight as this eastbound working brakes hard for the stop at Reading

The late winter sunsine has started to change the Sumerset fields green as Cross County HST 43303 heads for the West Country.

London Bound HST heads runs past Tavistock Junction

London Bound HST heads for Plymouth

Despite the freezing temperatures I couldn't turn down an opportunity to take some shots with sun on snow, although I only managed an hour or so before I began to lose all feeling in my feet. AN F... (more)

The harshest winter weather since 1981/2 has finally reached southern England. Even here some rural spots have been down as low as zero degress farenheit (around -18C) overnight. An unidentified F... (more)

Seen from White Horse Hill in weak winter sunlight, an FGW HST set passes the village of Uffington in the Vale of White Horse

Passengers and diesel smoke are not much more than blurs in this late night scene, with three HST sets sitting around. I was particularly interested to see these as they have so much in common wit... (more)

A military helicopter had been flying in the area for some time, but chose to follow the railway line just as this eastbound FGW HST passed me at Baulking - and in sunshine too. Of course the clou... (more)