Less than six months old, 43172 passes Stoke Orchard with the 1V86 10:33 Leeds to Paignton service on 13 March 1982. HSTs had only just appeared on this route at the time. Note that these cross country sets only had one first class coach within a seven coach formation, whereas the original Great Western sets (Class 253) had two, as did the East Coast Mainline sets (Class 254), the latter being an eight coach formation. One of the formerly extensive local orchards can be seen on the right. Surprisingly this is not the derivation of the name Stoke Orchard. It was originally called Stoke Archer, as in the medieval period the parish had to supply the King with an archer for part of the year.