I believe that the word ‘Iconic’ has become much overused in our language,
being trotted out daily in the media to mark some insignificant event.
I think for something to be truly iconic, it should be meaningful and lasting.
The HST as been just that.
Born out of the necessity for finding something to replace the Advanced Passenger Train which was years before its time.
Now approaching their final days, the class 43s have stood the test of time.
I think that it will live in the collective memory like Sir Nigel Gresley’s A4 or Sir William Stanier’s Black Five before it.
Friend Peter Rose and I have been photographing HSTs for many years and this short series of blogs are our joint tribute to it.
43139 ‘First Great Western’ Driver Stan Martin.
BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car
on Dennis Basford’srailsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured at Exeter St. Davids.
43014 ‘Network Rail’ The Railway Observer & 43062 John Armitt.
BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured at Doncaster.
42076 ‘East Midland Railway’.
BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured at Trowell Junction.
43239 ‘Virgin’.
BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured at Grantham.
43154 ‘Great Western Railway’. Compton Castle.
BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured at Bristol Temple Meads.
43274 ‘East Midland Railway’.
BREL Crewe built Diesel Electric Power Car
on Dennis Basford’s railsroadsrunways.blogspot.co.uk’
Pictured at Trowell Junction.
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