RAILSCOT | First GWR High Speed Train off-lease this month [Rail]

First GWR High Speed Train off-lease this month [Rail]

Date: 22/08/2017

The first Great Western Railway High Speed Train will go off-lease on August 31, Angel Trains has confirmed to RAIL.
Power cars 43021 David Austin - Cartoonist and 43132 We Save the Children - Will you? will leave GWR, along with Trailer First (TF) 41032, Trailer Standards (TS) 42045-047, 42207 and 42561.
Owned by Angel Trains, these are the first HST vehicles to be withdrawn by GWR, and they are destined for ScotRail. The coaches will be moved to Wabtec Rails Doncaster facility for modifications, overhaul and refurbishment which includes fitting plug doors to the coaches to enable them to be in operation beyond January 1 2020.
ScotRail will introduce HSTs on routes serving its seven cities from next year. All will be leased from Angel, with 54 power cars to be refurbished by Wabtec at its Brush Traction Loughborough site, and 121 Mk 3s to pass through Doncaster.
The project will be completed in May 2019, with 17 five-coach and nine four-coach sets entering traffic.

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GWR sends first ScotRail-bound HST off-lease at the end of August.

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43018 and 43015 are rear power cars on the 07.58 and 07.28 First Great Western HST services to London Paddington seen stabled at Swansea platforms 3 and 4 on 16 July. 43015 is in the process of being checked over ready for departure.
Location: Swansea
Company: South Wales Railway
16/07/2013 David Pesterfield

View west over the yards at Old Oak Common in July 2005 from the wall along the south side of the Grand Union Canal. A First Great Western HST is about to leave the carriage sidings on an empty stock working to Paddington, with North Pole Eurostar Depot standing on the other side of the GW main line.
Location: Old Oak Common
Company: Great Western Railway
21/07/2005 John Furnevel

With a few hundred yards to go, a First Great Western HST approaches the end of its journey, Penzance station, on 22 April 2012, having travelled all the way (ecs) from the carraige sidings at Long Rock.
Location: Penzance
Company: West Cornwall Railway
22/04/2012 John McIntyre

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