43180 catches the last of the evening light, as it passes Bredicot on 18 June 1984 with the 16:42 Manchester Piccadilly to Plymouth InterCity service. Being one of the last power cars to be delivered, 43180 did not have the abandoned 253 set numbers on the front end. However, neither did it have the loco number from new, this being added sometime during 1983. It eventually did acquire the obsolete Class 253 designation, but only when it was painted into the then new Executive livery!