The end of a golden age
Jun 18, 2019
3 minutes
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MY teenage self would hardly believe I am making this trip. Back in the early 1980s, most enthusiasts looked down on the then still newish HSTs as they systematically set about replacing loco-hauled travel across all parts of the non-electrified InterCity network, seeing off much-loved loco types such as ‘Westerns’, ‘Deltics’ and ‘Peaks’. In general, you really only took one if there was no other way to get to where you wanted to be.
Over the next four decades, however, HSTs have more than proved themselves worthy of the
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