43159 is ready for the 50th Anniversary!

43159 in its world record breaker livery

With some help from our friends at UKRL and Railadventure, we’ve been preparing a surprise for this weekends 50th Anniverary of HST, but the cats out of the bag as 43159 leaves Loughborough today! Over the past couple of week 43159 has been repainted into its world record breaker livery and looks stunning as you can see!

43159 will be out this weekend (subject to operational requirements and availablity) as part of the set for ‘The Journey Shrinker’ and ‘Rio Revival’ railtours.

There are still limited tickets available for these tours, just click the button below if you would like to book with the bonus that you can see 43159 in person!

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HIGH SPEED TRAIN (INTER-CITY 125) 50TH ANNIVERSARY PUBLIC RAILTOUR – TIMINGS UPDATE

The Journey Shrinker

An update as we now have provisional timings for both “The Journey Shrinker” on Saturday 3rd October and “The Rio Revival” on Sunday 4th October as follows:

Saturday 3rd October – The Journey Shrinker

Outward: London Paddington 09.12, Reading 09.39, Swindon 10.06, Bristol Temple Meads arr 10.52 / dep 11.07, Cardiff Central 12.00, Swansea 12.48

Return: Swansea 14.38, Cardiff 15.26, Bristol Temple Meads arr 16.25 / dep 16.41, Swindon 1729, Reading 1805, London Paddington 18.29

Sunday 4th October – The Rio Revival

London St. Pancras 12.05, Leicester 13.27, Chesterfield arr 14.05 / dep 14.27, Stockport arr 15.22 / dep 15.28, Manchester Piccadilly 15.37

These timings are provisional and subject to confirmation by Network Rail nearer the tour dates.

Full details of both trips, together with fares and booking options are now available on the 125 Group Railtours Site – just click the button below.

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