‘JOURNEY SHRINKER’ and ‘Age of the Train' are two of the terms associated with the BR Class 253 and Class 254 High Speed Trains, or HSTs, which have made the headlines in a number of ways in the last five years with their displacement from long held territories of the Great Western, Midland Main Line and East Coast routes.
The future for this design icon, which has served the railways so well, is mixed. A fair number of Great Western Class
