43029 Chalford 21 April 2002

43029 heads through the dappled shade of the Golden Valley as it passes Chalford with the diverted 1B24 12:00 Paddington to Swansea First Great Western service on 21 April 2002. This is the first version of First Great Western's blue livery, with large areas of white paint which were evidently considered too difficult to keep clean. Unfortunately I haven't got many pictures of this version of the livery, as after so many livery changes I got rather blas? about taking pictures, until they had all disappeared.