The Flying Banana at Cardiff
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The Flying Banana at Cardiff
Image: © Gareth James Taken: 1 Jun 2019
To mark the end of class 43, High Speed Train operations to London by Great Western Railway, GWR ran a farewell railtour - The Flying Banana, named after the original nickname of the HSTs - across much of its network. The tour featured first-built production power car No. 43002 (in its 1976 retro-livery) and last-built No. 43198. Here the tour departs Cardiff on its way back to London from Carmarthen.
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Image Location
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51.479247
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-3.163602