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. |