Swindon to Fishguard
This Video 125 Cab Ride is filmed aboard a First Great Western 125 High Speed Train (HST) before the through services were abandoned and covers the direct line from Swindon, via Bristol Parkway, Newport, Cardiff, Bridgend, Port Talbot, Neath, Swansea, and Whitland to Fishguard.

Filmed in 2002 – Running Time 118 Minutes

This Video 125 DVD set was first released as two separate products.

HST West

Covers virtually the whole of Brunel’s route from Exeter St David’s to Newton Abbot including the glorious section through Dawlish and on through Totnes, over the infamous banks at Dainton and Rattery to Plymouth finishing with a driver’s eye view of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash. Filmed in 1986 just weeks before the semaphore signals were abolished for ever.

HST Far West

This starts at the Royal Albert Bridge. The 75 miles from Saltash to Penzance contains the greatest number of viaducts per mile on any British Railway and such exaggerated curvature that there is only one dead straight mile of track throughout. Once again, virtually the whole route is shown including the many single line sections. Filmed in 1990.
There are dozens of aerial views taken from a helicopter on both of the above productions.

Total Running Time – 180 Minutes

During summer 2004, 125 Group was given exclusive authority by Midland Mainline to record the view from the cab of a Project Rio service.

In order to ‘keep the sun on our backs’ we nominated the 0900 from London St. Pancras as first choice train. On the day, there were two things that we desperately wanted to avoid, one was rain, the other a VP185! Fortunately the rain kept away and we were not disappointed with the set provided, 43198 leading and 43158 trailing gave a flawless performance. Despite a random signal check and some horses on the line, Leicester was reached early so we were away ‘right time’. Remarkably, the next time we stopped was in the platform at Manchester Piccadilly having run via the regular Rio route of the Erewash and Hope Valleys and then via Romiley as the Stockport area was blocked for West Coast Route Modernisation work.

This DVD features over 80 HST movements filmed between 1988 & 2016. It shows the HST in a variety of liveries and with both Paxman Valenta and MTU engines. The DVD covers the route from Oxford to Bournemouth, including all stations between Oxford & Reading and diversions around Didcot and into London Waterloo.

Running time of the DVD is 73 minutes.

This DVD features over 80 HST movements filmed between 1987 & 2016. It shows the HST in a variety of liveries and with both Paxman Valenta and MTU engines. The DVD covers the routes from Swindon and Bristol, then into South Wales and through to Fishguard. Diversions around Freshford and Kemble are also included.

Running time of the DVD is 74 minutes.

Running time of this DVD is 69 minutes. Locations visited: Newcastle, HLB, Manors, Byker, Cramlington, Morpeth, Alnmouth, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Dunbar, Edinburgh, Haymarket, Glasgow Queen Street, Motherwell, Cadder Yard, Inverness, Falkirk, Newbridge, North Queensferry, Forth Bridge, Inverkeithing, Burntisland, Tay Bridge & Aberdeen. Lots of line side and station action covering HSTs in many liveries from 1988 through to 2013.