South West Railways

First Great Western Network 10th July 2009 - 12th July 2009 Click an image to enlarge
10th July 2009
	Two class 143s and an Arriva 150, which will return from hire on FGW soon, are seen at Exeter TMD on Friday evening
	43029 leads a short formed HST on the 1737 Penzance - London Paddington, as night falls at Bath Spa
11th July 2009
	A First Great Western HST departs London Paddington with the 0845 service to Pembroke Dock, underneath Brunel's great trainshed
	166201, waiting to form the 0921 to Oxford, and an HST, waiting to form the 0900 to Bristol Temple Meads, both sit under the shed at London Paddington, terminus of the Great Western Mainline
	Paddington station is dominated by the blue of First Great Western, with a Heathrow Express unit thrown in for variation
	332001, sits in the Heathrow Express platforms at London Paddington, waiting to form a service to the capitals airport
	Reading is a major interchange on the GWML, as well as a major bottleneck. Two turbos wait in the bay platforms, with the delayed 0957 Reading - Bristol Temple Meads waiting to depart on platform 4
	Reading station is in line for a multimillion pound re-development to alleviate some of the delays caused by there only being one platform to the West, of which up to 10 trains can pass per hour
	43139 prepares to depart Port Talbot Parkway with the 0945 Paddington - Swansea service
	Closely followed by 175106 on a service to Carmarthen
	158766 sits at the railway town of Swindon with a service towards Warminster via Melksham, which only sees two train services per day in each direction
	Train services from London to Cheltenham must reverse at Gloucester, 43026 is seen performing this manoeuvre at Gloucester heading towards Cheltenham
	158886, on hire from South West Trains, slows to stop at Gloucester, with a Cheltenham - Swindon service
	Back at Swindon, 158886, on hire from SWT due to stock shortage, prepares to reverse and head back to Cheltenham
	At Worcester Shrub Hill, 150214 departs with a service to Dorridge, whilst a FGW HST waits in the adjacent platform preparing to depart with the 2002 to London Paddington
	At Didcot Parkway, a turbo departs Didcot heading towards Oxford with a stopping service from London
	165104 sits at a very wet Didcot Parkway, with a stopping service to the capital
12th July 2009
	A disgraced 150233 sits at Freshford having failed due to an air leak whilst working the 0935 Frome - Bristol Temple Meads
	158959 was dispatched from Bristol to rescue, as the unit was causing severe delays to all services around, due to London trains being diverted along the Avon valley. It is seen running wrong line into Freshford, where it would couple to 150233
	Two First Great Western HSTs are seen at Bristol Temple Meads
	43207 tails a Cross Country service from the North East to Plymouth at Newton Abbot

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