HST's in full flight - Last 125 services into and out of Paddington 

4:08 The power car in the original livery 😀. Its 1978 again and im 4yrs old at Kings Cross station with my mum waiting 2 board one bound 4 Edinburgh. I remember the buffet coach, the service area being all red in colour and the seats in first class where we was seated was orange if I recall correctly. The HST 125 was a smashing train. The train has loads of character. I remember on one occasion at Edinburgh Waverley again back in about 78-79 waiting 2 board the train 2 come back down south with me mum the driver let me sit in his cab 4 a few mins. I pressed the engine horn also. Fantastic 😀

The driver of 43188 (Geraint Thomas) on the return leg to Plymouth was my Dad. He’s been on the railway for 43 years now.

HSTs were worthy successors to Castles. British Rail did OK.

Superb. Thanks for posting. Remember the HST's revolutionising the South Wales - Padd services when I was a teenager. Great bit of engineering.

I like your intro with the Deltics!!! Thanks for recording this essential part of our railway history. To think that I aligned myself with the "Scrap The HSTs" brigade back in the '80s; I didn't know what I was thinking about...

It was a sight to enjoy while they lasted. HST's had a good innings.

Thanks for being there; I was on the last 1 from Swansea; a good day all-round

Nice loco and very immersive footage! Cheers from Belarus

Too bad that they're being phased out. I doubt we'll see the trains of today running for 40 years.

4:02 10:09 cheeky window hangers 😂. Fantastic video

4:09 These British Rail Intercity 125 High Speed Trains Are A Bit Like The Japanese Bullet Trains. Thanks Mate. X❤

Beautiful video bro great Coverage

fab vid.... gone are the days of comfort ...:(

0:31 That is the one which my country built (I rode the original one in Nagasaki before) but personally I prefer the old trains like 1:13 because they are beautiful and look like very "British."

Amazing video and great channel. Liked and subscribed.

A very good video ❤thanks.

I wish if Amtrak & VIA Rail Canada had these

Is someone dropping the bog on a couple of those HSTs as they approach the station? Seems to be a lot of stuff coming out under the fron carriage bogies and it isnt dust!

The new ones just don't have the character or impressive sounds of the 125's

So sad to see these go, glad I have plenty of videos of these and managed to see 43002 and 43185 in time. But at least a few are being kept.

Exelente video 👍

I'm going to miss the class 43

I get why the various train companies re-branded the HST's colour schemes but that original blue and yellow is still the best.

They should come to the states so we can have some higher speed rail lol

You almost got gazumped on the last one! Great footag

Does it feel weird most hsts are getting replaced by 801 800

Great to see the HSTs at full pelt. Although they aren’t the same without that valenta scream of course! 5:41 was a great catch all those units all At once! Strange effect near the end of that section looks like the HST is going to hit the suburban (of course not). The HSTs just look so solid, weighty, compared to everything else.

I see lots of 4 coach HST on filton bank through stapleton road in Bristol,, are they being used on manchester / leeds runs ???

Enjoyed watching this video my friend Really awesome views Thank you Stay connected

Fab Vid, but 1 thing i see all 4 go down to pad and if im not mistaken only 3 out the 4 came back up??, was there a black hole somewhere for 1 of the HSTS or did it branch off somewhere ??

great video the iet that went past you at 8:34 is 802008 on the front

what speed are they going through here? also great shots

the driver of 43185+ (009) was really shifting.

I'm amaed with the use of telephoto lenses how warped the track looks!!

Was half was down the same platform at Taplow for this

3:55 for best livery!

4:09 What is that white smoke or dust coming from the wheels and / or the rails under the front power car?

The HST’s will still be with GWR, just not on the GWML anymore

I thought electrification had been halted to pay for London's crossrail.

Should keep the class 43 shes beautiful winding the window down inbetween the carriage on the mark 3 coach at 125mph ohhh that fresh air 😍😍

Great camera work! Makes the rails look dangerously under-maintained.

HST’s make me smile

How fast are the HST's going on this stretch? Its deceiving as they look slow until they come past you... 👍 Great video btw...

I miss the GWR 2+8 HSTs on intercity services and with the slam doors

The last time you get to see turds flying at you at 125 MPH. No more smellies in the 4 ft at Reading station. I'll miss them! (the High Speed Trains not the High Speed Turds)

Can somebody explain why trains only have 1 headlight working most of the time?

And to think what Rubbish we have now, so Sad 😭 Long Live The Inter City HST 125 💔

Time Frame-4:09-10:49, classic blue, white and yellow Intercity 125 power car 253 001 with green GWR 43

Wonderful iconic machines, I'm sure many will be sad to see them go. Likewise with the ECML sets, and the IC 225s, also soon to be replaced with IEPs. Seems funny to think that when it was still around, BR was the but of jokes, yet here we are lamenting the "good old days" haha. But in all seriousness, I do with designers of the modern stock would at least look at the old stuff...maybe then they'd stand a chance of producing something equally spacious, quiet, comfortable and long lived!

Intercity 125 she wanna my favorite high speed trains whole world

And the sun sets on another beloved diesel class.

What speed are they going through there ??. 80 ??

Only taking photos of the 253's :)

In memory of the HST 125 I am building a LEGO HST 125

I'd like watching more videos about Eurostar

nice 1 like it

You can feel the power as they pass hair raising 💯

I am PRAYING 43185 and 43002 are marked for preservation.

0:17 the front of the new trains looks like Gerald Scarfe's depiction of the Teacher from Pink Floyd's The Wall.

The HST was the last British design and what a success. I can never understand why these days all the trains are built by foreign companies.

I know u will miss them but look at the fumes they chuck out.

Next stop, Long Marston ☹️

Well pleased to see the back of these most uninteresting of trains, sadly to be replaced by other more bland sets. Would hate to see any preserved.

Great video but the sound of the camerA clicking was a little off-putting

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Good afternoon! My name is Cameron from UK Railway Information. May we use some of your footage to go towards our HST 1-year on video? If not, I understand. Thanks! Our email is: communications@ukrailwayinformation.org if you need it.

The old HSTs are cooler in my opinion

it's kind of absurd from today's point of view. They spent more than half a billion pounds on the HST which is a class 43 diesel nightmare. That same money would at the time have been enough to electrify two more mainlines and operate them with class 87 and later class 90 and 91. Dieselisation was the single biggest mistake in the post war history of railway politics and even in the 1970s they did not change anything. Shame on them! 😠 An elderly friend of mine, a life-long railway enthusiast, said it best: "Of course I love the Deltics but they should never have been built." Same is true for the HST. Thank God electrification of the Great Western Mainline has just been completed from London to Bristol. That makes 3 mainlines (almost) entirely electrified. I totally understand that they went with diesel locos in the first 10-15 years after the war when Britain was heavily dependent on foreign loans and the false promise of "cheap oil" kinda hypnotized everybody. But since the 1960s dieselization was already obsolete. Roughly 60 years later Britain finally liberates itself from this historic mistake. Honestly, I can't wait to see one damn' class 43 after another being brought where they belong: One trainset for the railway museum and the rest, yes, TO THE SCRAP YARD!!!

those units delivered me away from all the wrong people... - I simply boarded one and ended up in South Wales ...far away from the planet Thanet and all the freaks...

Plastic Hitachis look pathetic in comparison to the HST. Regression at its finest.

Piece of junk at 00:21!