43185 Denchworth 2 July 2009

An aptly named HST power car to be photographed heading west along Brunel's superbly engineering Great Western Mainline. 43185 Great Western is pictured passing Denchworth with the 1B35 12:45 Paddington to Swansea First Great Western service on 2 July 2009. In recent years I had tended to ignore this location, concentrating instead like everybody else on the nearby Circourt Bridge. This was probably because I had failed to take enough pictures before they erected this slightly over engineered signal gantry. However, it is sufficiently far away to be a frame for the train rather than dominate the picture. Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the gantry on the other side of the bridge, which is impossibly close.