Cotswold - Purbeck Express, 28th September 2013

Promoted by The Cotswold Line Promotion Group. Several "firsts" may have happened. First FGW HST on main line from Basingstoke?  First HST to Bournemouth since 2002 (except the NMT)? First HST onto the Swanage Railway.

 43028 leads the train through Redbridge.

 43028 was completed at Crewe in August 1976.

43078 on the rear was completed in January 1978.