My son Andrew was on Nottingham station on Friday 30th. April when this turned up.
Which as many of you will know is the current ‘celebrity’ HST power car.
My thanks go to him for my use of the image here.
43102 ‘East Midland Railway’ (EMR) ’Intercity Swallow’. BREL Crewe built HST
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Originally numbered 43102, but later re-numbered to 43302.
This power car formed one part of the set which set set a new World speed record for Rail Diesel Traction in 1987.
The record being 148.5 mph.
The re-paint and re-numbering into the current livery was done to mark the anniversary of the event which took place between Northallerton and York on the East coast main line.
The other power car being No. 43159.
This power car and the others currently operated by EMR are due to be withdrawn this month (May 2021).
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