XC HSTs Final Day - Final Train

CrossCountry is to withdraw its fleet of HSTs, so I am capturing the final workings in the weeks before the final operational day in a series of short videos.
In this video we the last timetabled CrossCountry HST, and it is working 1E73 1627 Plymouth - Leeds on the last working day, 18th September 2023, and seen calling here at Tamworth. The paintwork on the power cars is simply exquisite.
For the historical record, this is the last timetabled train, with 43007 XC02 set and 43008 it had an extra vehicle in the set in making it a 2+8. The train travelled from Plymouth via Westbury due to engineering work Bristol - Taunton. On arrival at Leeds, it would go to Neville Hill and stable for a week before working a charter to Swanage.

[@JoanieDraper]

Never thought as what I call modern trains “ retiring “ where😊😊 do they go ? Train grave yard or sold on ? This design is modern to my way of thinking. When train had separate carriages that my first memory of trains in the 1960s did these types of trains pull them back in the day or was it only steam ??

[@mrowl-the-dsm1304]

Interesting comment, these trains transformed UK train travel, in that it was faster than anything else in use at that time, and made train operations easier. Many have gone to be cut up and made into razor blades, BUT a number have been exported to Mexico, and Nigeria, and now transforming their railways.

[@JoanieDraper]

@@mrowl-the-dsm1304 razor blades ! Lots of them made from one train ! I did think they did get sold to other countries to help with their transport too.