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First Great Western (FGW) Diesel locomotive class 43 Locomotive is seen at Didcot Satation in Oxfordshire sporting the FGW green livery. Alan F. Scott (afs87@yahoo.co.uk)

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First Great Western (FGW) Diesel locomotive class 43 Locomotive is seen at Didcot Satation in Oxfordshire sporting the FGW green livery. Alan F. Scott (afs87@yahoo.co.uk)

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First Great Western (FGW) Diesel locomotive class 43 Locomotive is seen at Didcot Station sporting a colourful mixture of old and new liveries. Photo: Alan F. Scott (afs87@yahoo.co.uk)

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First Great Western (FGW) Diesel locomotive class 43 Locomotive is seen at Didcot Station sporting a colourful mixture of old and new liveries. Photo: Alan F. Scott (afs87@yahoo.co.uk)

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Mk3 GH1G/TF (HST vehicle) - Trailer Open First . First Great Western liveried 41012 stands inside Bristol's St Philips Marsh depot on Sat 11th September 1999. Photo and scan: Ross Aitken (aos@cableinet.co.uk) Website: http://wkweb4.cableinet.co.uk/aos/photography

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43124fgw-reading.jpg First Great Western 'flying fag packets' 43 124 pulling out of Reading sometime in March. This train was heading for Plymouth from London Paddington. Photo by alex lu (lexcie@innocent.com, http://www.lexcie.zetnet.co.uk/)

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43128 and 43177 on the sea wall near Dawlish Warren on September 6, 2003 with a London bound train. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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A rare sight in Cornwall as 43008 and 43100 on the 1V49 Dundee to Penzance pass 43129 and 43005 on an up London service close to Moorswater Viaduct. April 16, 2002 Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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43171 and 43033 passing up the famous Dawlish Sea Wall on September 6, 2003. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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43175 and 43149 with a westbound service from Paddington at Aller Junction. 24 April, 2004 Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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43176 and 43034 pass Duffryn on the evening of February 29, 2004. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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43177 and 43024 at speed passing the old signalbox at Exminster near Exeter. The signalbox, closed in the mid 1980s is now a bird hide. September 15, 2003. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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First Great Western HST at Cardiff Central, UK Probably BRs greatest single success (apart from perhaps electrifying the West Coast Mainline), the 125mph (200km/h) High Speed Train, is still going strong on Great Western. These trains are still the main express trains from South Wales, Bristol, and the South West to London. This is a Swansea - London express, calling at Cardiff Central platform 4. This is the leading power car. Every HST has two Class 43 power cars, one at each end. The livery sported by this train is becoming increasingly rare - the green, gold and white being replaced by Firstgroup's corporate colours, of blue, white and pink, although Great Western is being allowed to retain its gold band, possibly due to its prestigious nature as a long-distance intercity operator. Photo by Timothy Vince (le_random@yahoo.co.uk)

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First Great Western HST at Cardiff Central, UK Mark 3 carriages of a Swansea - London HST at Cardiff Central. This train is quite a rare sight now, as there are few entire trains left without at least a few carriages in the new Firstgroup blue/pink livery - however this train is still in the green livery in its entirety. First class is always at the London (Left-of-picture) end of the train. Nearest the camera is the buffet car, followed by 5 standard carriages. Photo by Timothy Vince (le_random@yahoo.co.uk)

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A First Great Western HST nearing its destination of Swansea races through the village of Skewen in August 2004. Whilst FGW have brought new Class 180 Adelante DMUs into operation, HSTs are still the most common trains on the South Wales Main Line and and their reign looks set to continue for years to come. Carl Evans railpics78@yahoo.co.uk

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A Paddington to Penzance HST passing Brent Knoll, in Somerset on October 21, 2003. Photo and copyright Wayland Smith (wa231_2000@yahoo.co.uk)

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HST of First Great Western, seen passing Hayes & Harlingdon at 200km/h-125mph, on a Westbound service. Whereas most of this formation is in "Barbie" livery, the rear power-car has retained its original GW green livery. Hayes & Harlingdon. 16th August 2004. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).

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HST of First Great Western, seen at London-Paddington. The rear power-car (43.147) has retained its original GW green livery. London-Paddington. 9th December 2003. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).

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HST of First Great Western. Standard-class trailer (TS), still in original GW livery. London-Paddington. 18th August 2004. P.L.Guillemin (plguillemin@yahoo.fr).

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An HST set arrives at Totnes with an eastbound working, 26/11/99 Photo copyright Stephen Dance (sdance@esfplc.com)

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Class 43 seen at Undy on 19 February 2004. Copyright belongs to Andrew Ducker who can be contacted via email at ecml@yahoo.co.uk. All photographs taken on Canon EOS10D.

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First Great Western (FGW) Diesel class 43 Shown in the photograph is 43012 in the former FGW green livery at Paddington Station during late August 2003. Photo: Alan F. Scott (afs87@yahoo.co.uk)

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Class 43 HST power car 43188 in First Great Western livery stands at platform 13 of Bristol Temple Meads on 2nd August 2004 awaiting its next working, presumably to Paddington. Photographed by Chris McKenna

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37426 stands at Cardiff Central having arrived from Rhymney. 13.10.01 Photo and scan by Alan Perryman (alanperryman@btinternet.com)