43176 Chilson 3 August 1995

Looking stunning in the low evening light, remarkably clean 43176 passes underneath the roadbridge at Chilson on 1 August 1995 with the 1B48 17:10 Paddington to Hereford service. At the time there wouldn't have been many cameras that could successfully take this kind of close up view of a fast moving HST. Most cameras at the time had a top shutter speed of 1/1000sec, which would be insufficient to completely freeze the movement of this train. Generally only top of the range 35mm cameras boasted a higher shutter speed. This was taken on an old style Canon F1 on Fujichrome 100 at 1/2000sec f3.5.