GREAT Western Railway will continue using its short-formed 2+4 Castle High Speed Trains beyond the December timetable.
The operator confirmed the decision in late-April. GWR had always planned to retain a handful of the sets for strategic purposes beyond the start of the December 2023 timetable.
A GWR spokesperson told on April 25 that the key difference between the plans announced last year and now is that the HSTs will now certainly be in traffic. The spokesperson said that they
