43098 arrives at Charlbury station with the 1W47 15:51 Paddington to Worcester Shrub Hill First Great Western service on 9 June 2008, with 43016 on the rear. This fine uninterrupted view of the station could possibly be lost if the plans for reinstating the double track on this section of the Cotswold Line go ahead. Presumably a second platform would be constructed with a footbridge, which although obviously a good thing as far as passengers are concerned, will make photography from this spot more difficult.

No mistaking the identity of this HST power car! 43106 leads the 08:40 Poole to Edinburgh 'Dorset Scot' past Worting Junction on 29 July 1991, just a few days after this service had been diagrammed for HSTs in place of the previous Class 47 haulage. Worting Junction is where the non-electrified Salisbury line joins the Southampton route. This excellent view of the complicated trackwork and vintage corrugated iron PW hut is from a farm occupation bridge.

43107 leads the diverted 1E12 09:55 Aberdeen to Kings Cross GNER 'Northern Lights' service past Stockton on 3 April 1999. Due to engineering work on the Darlington line over the Easter weekend, most services were diverted via Sunderland, Hartlepool and Stockton. This view shows the typical poor state of most railways in an urban location, with all kinds of rubbish strewn all over the track, not helped by the fact that large areas of former railway land (such as that on the left) are now semi-derelict.

Due to the inadequacy of the Voyager fleet, Virgin Cross Country has to hire GNER HST sets for some Saturday services to the West of England during the summer peak. On 11 August 2007, 43107 Tayside leads the 1E46 10:32 Paignton to Newcastle Central service past Flax Bourton. This location is a footpath bridge in the middle of nowhere, and I fully expected to be on my own. However, I hadn't been there long when large groups of cyclists started appearing, until eventually the bridge was packed! It turned out that it was the opening of the route as part of the Sustrans national cycle network.

43109 leads the 1E12 07:55 Inverness to Kings Cross GNER 'Highland Chieftain' past Bardrill (near Gleneagles) on 23 April 2003. This power car has subsequently be renumbered to 43309 in line with GNER's policy of adding 200 to the numbers of their re-engined power cars. This seems a strange numbering procedure, especially in view of the fact that other franchise operators have retained the original number after refurbishment.

43111 speeds past Aynho on 29 June 1993 with the 17:16 Bournemouth to Manchester Piccadilly InterCity service. At this time the majority of these cross country services were in the hands of Class 47s, with just a few trains diagrammed for HSTs. The train is approaching the site of Aynho station and the junction with the Chiltern Line.

A profusion of gorse bushes in full bloom at Houndwood on 3 May 2008, as 43111 heads south with a rake of reliveried National Express East Coast coaches on the 08:35 Edinburgh to Kings Cross service on 3 May 2008. 43111 is in the transitional livery, with rebranding on the former GNER colour scheme.

With foam on the windscreen from the windscreen washers, 43115 Yorkshire Cricket Academy rounds the curve at Shaldon Bridge next to the River Teign as it pulls away from the Teignmouth stop with the 09:20 Paddington to Plymouth service on 15 September 1991.

43116 emerges from Kingswood Tunnel with the 1E12 07:55 Inverness to King's Cross GNER service on 11 June 2007. This is the only daily GNER HST from Inverness, the remainder of the service being provided by First ScotRail units. I had planned to photograph the following Pathfinder railtour at this spot, but although an HST power car is OK, a pair of Class 37s would be partly obscured by the overhanging bushes, so I sought an alternative location.

43122 leads the 1P57 13:23 Hereford to Paddington First Great Western service off the Cotswold Line at Wolvercote Junction on 11 February 2008. All except one vehicle are former Midland Mainline coaches, temporarily on hire to First Great Western . 43145 can be seen bringing up the rear. There is certainly a noticeable shift in the camber (or superelevation) of the line as it joins the main Banbury to Oxford line.