43178 passes Challow on 9 September 1997 with the 1A17 06:12 Swansea to Paddington 'South Wales Executive'. This was approximately half way through the short lived Great Western Trains franchise, before it became First Great Western. This is the western end of the four track section of line from Wantage Road, which was reinstated in the early 1990s for use by trains of imported coal from Avonmouth to Didcot Power Station.