Paxman Valenta HSTs Reading Teignmouth & Dawlish 4th & 5th October 2002

[@hstman14]

Fantastic Video!! It brings Memories back of the great Paxman Valenta. Living in Bath, HSTs are regular for me, it's not the same anymore with all the rumbling MTUs, you just cannot beat the legend that is the Valenta!

[@scottjm0682]

If only cars could be powered by them! 😂

[@rorymacve]

I have fond memories of Valenta HST's at Teignmouth. You should have filmed one of the stopping northbound HST's, in order to get out of the station they had to go full throttle to climb the small bank from the station to the sea wall. 1998 was probably the best year to see valentas in action because of the diverse liveries! 5* vid m8, priceless.

[@derisleybrittain]

Superb footage 💖💖💖💖💖🤠🤠🤠👍👍👍👍

[@Hyperen]

The first power car sounds like a VP185

[@Hyperen]

Great sounds and excellently filmed - What more could you want

[@MrJoshiej]

I liked the green and gold livery one of my favourites

[@hstman14]

So it does, The nameplate 'Edward Paxman' suggests it's 43170 so definately VP185, Good spot!

[@Toothpaste465]

i love this livery!

[@markcolston7043]

great footage

[@traindriver35]

Thanks, things have certainly changed at Reading since this was filmed

[@markcolston7043]

yes it has,pretty sad looking back,i love the british rail era,the good old days!

[@Flash-ut5rh]

These were the real HST's.

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

This route has now been electrified because more emus are now using that section of the line as far as didcot

[@ZetanCrisp]

The acceleration must have been ultra rapid with only 5 cars!!

[@159james]

1:55 The most famous train announcer in the world!!!

[@nicholaskeel771]

2.00 R. I. P Station anoouncer Roger Woolven Allen the voice of many stations on the network

[@traindriver35]

Oh no no, these announcements are Phil Sayer. Several interesting interviews in here. He died in 2016. I think they were the best station announcements we ever had.

[@quattrohead]

Classic HST footage starting at 4:15.

[@JamesPetts]

A splendid video - it is quite a thing to see and hear the HSTs as they were originally built - and as I remember them! Would you have any objection if I were to use fragments of the audio from this and other of your videos as sound effects in a free, open-source non-commercial computer game called Simutrans under the Artistic Licence 1.0 (opensource.org/licenses/Artistic-1.0)? I should happily credit you, of course.

[@thebrummierailenthusiasts5329]

As of today fgw have now withdrawn all the fgw hsts because of the new iep hitachi trains been introduced for high speed running