43010 speeds past Denchworth on 14 March 1994 with the 1C42 14:15 Paddington to Bristol Temple Meads InterCity service. The trackside vegetation had recently been cleared for the reinstatement of the two relief lines. Note the fresh ballast and the rusty rails on the still to be commissioned up relief line on the left. Although nowadays most DSLRs have very fast top shutter speeds, this was not always the case in the 1990s. Most SLRs (including the rollfilm Pentax 6x7 that I used extensively) stopped at 1/1000sec. This would not have been fast enough to freeze the movement of this train travelling at 125mph, so for this picture I used the 1/2000sec shutter speed of my 1970s vintage totally mechanical, built like a tank, Canon F1.