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Arrival of the HSTs

A selection from the earliest years...

Pictures taken in  when these trains were virtually brand new - plus some reminders of the other things that were around at the time (note the steam-heated 47-hauled rake of Mk I stock)
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June '76: near Twyford

253 002 westbound  Eastbound parcels - and a 31  D1058 "Western Reliance" on westbound stone empties  Westbound passenger - Western hauled

December '76 - same location

253 001 westbound  253 007 westbound  ...and an eastbound 47

October 1977 - near Goring-on-Thames

   

Same day - Sonning cutting, and near Twyford

    253 008 near Twyford

East coast - Ulleskelf (12/6/77), and Ranskill level crossing (28/10/78)

253 026 (I think) - Ulleskelf  254 022 at Ranskill  Deltic at Ranskill

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