With the end of the High Speed Train diesel set on main line passenger service coming to an end here are a few memories 
of their time in service since 1978    


During 1975 41001 and 41002 were used on tests along the East Coast main line with the prototypes running between Derby and Darlington, her Jack Archer caught the HST heading for Darlington passing Castle Hills Jct near Northallerton.
note the fastest ever ex LMS designed vehicle Test Car 2    

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GNER HST No43071 rounds the curve at Sunderland bridge near Durham with a Kings Cross service July 1997 K Morton

Now numbered 43000 the prototype HST set 252001 is seen leaving Shildon during the S&D 150 celebrations R Goad 31-08-1975

43100 leaves Darlington for Kings Cross on a summers evening in June 1989 R A Barber

43063 on a Virgin XC service seen in Carlisle 13th September 2002 R Goad

43027 with a diverted East Coast XC service in Carlisle station heading to Newcastle Dr K Gregory 23rd April 1989

43067 in Hornby Hobbies red advertising livery leaving Darlington for the West Country using a spare Midland Mainline set 16th June 2006 R A Barber

43002 the first of the production HST power cars enters the NRM at Shildon by road for a life in preservation R A Barber 21st September 2019

41002 or ADB975813 the first power car to be scrapped seen in Derby Works 15th November 1986 N W Skinner

43100 derailed at Northallerton following a gearbox seizure 28th August 1979 J Archer

The Australian version of a HST is the XPT unit 2013 seen here in Sydney Central station in December 1988 N W Skinner