The Valenta HST Scream - HSTs at Swindon 

Best trains in the world. Fastest most capable the Class 43 HST. Sounds best with a Valenta that Napier turbo screaming. Awesome machines. I didn’t like the MTU’s at launch but they grew on me, brilliant German engineering.

I could grab a Maxpax coffee and watch these videos all day

I can't get over the picture quality of this video. It is like ultra HD.

The state of some of those rails is apauling

The kudos and swagger of that Guard smoking a gasper on duty. Happy, free, much better times!

It's a wonder they stayed on the tracker...seen smoother rails in a quarry!

The guard lighting up in the cab! Brilliant! 1:31

Nice video and proper swallow livery

Nice…I always found that from somewhat larger stations like Reading, or Swindon, the departures were often a bit more polite…but once you got away to smaller stations, e.g. Pewsey, Totnes, to name just a couple of random ones, often they’d get thrashed:

Beltin! There's quite a lot of rocking and rolling there as they make their way in and out and of course, there's always some wazzock who gets in the way ;)

Nowadays westbound services at Swindon go straight off the new Platform 1.

Editing on this is fantastic

Cheltenham bound trains were a sight to see on departure from Swindon Platform 3, as they frequently would notch up to full power momentarily!

And with Jacob Rhys-Mogg driving one of them too (around 2:00).

That ain't no diesel

Always surprised how slow the crossover layout was at Swindon, considering the vast majority of trains called and the clear desire of BR for competitive journey times along the M4 corridor. I bet those 20/25mph limits weren’t often strictly observed though, probably why the track alignment is in such poor condition 😂 And of course the infamous hump over the station subway (which only recently still meant freight was limited to 40mph to avoid causing structural damage.)

Great video this almost looks like TV broadcast quality thanks for uploading this gem of a video.

Must have been very hot as there's some serious track warpage going on

I wonder how those trains are dancing over the tracks. British Rail didn´t give much money to work at it, right?

1:43 Don't get many of them to the pound. Especially in Swindon

A few class 37 stabled

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First class

Ĥorrible tracķ here for western region ,

Lovely video!!!

Proper traction

Hey there you mind if I use some of this footage for a video I'm working on

Get rid of the stupid like, subscribe and notify button, which ruins this video within the first 20 seconds.