43198 Driver Brian Cooper 15 June 1947 - 5 October 1999 passes Great Bedwyn on 1 June 2019 with the very last standard length GWR HST operated train, the 1Z25 18:57 Paddington to Plymouth 'Flying Banana' railtour. This power car is named Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950 - 6 November 2004 on the other side. The naming commemorates the two drivers killed in the Ladbrooke Grove, and Ufton Nervet crashes respectively. 43002 Sir Kenneth Grange is bringing up the rear. Although the sun was just starting to come out from behind some cloud, it wasn't until I was driving back though Marlborough that it came out fully. At least it was brighter than it had been for the previous half hour! |