Remaining HSTs - Where do they still run?

[Isaiah]

This is probably a question which has been asked many times, so I apologise in advance.

Are there any places left where HSTs run regular services? I am interested in knowing.

Thanks, friends.

 

[JonathanH]

This is probably a question which has been asked many times, so I apologise in advance.

Are there any places left where HSTs run regular services? I am interested in knowing.

Thanks, friends.

Roughly
GWR - Cardiff to Taunton / Plymouth / Penzance
Cross Country - Edinburgh / Leeds to Plymouth (very limited)
Scotrail - Edinburgh / Glasgow to Aberdeen / Inverness

 

[BayPaul]

Full length HSTs - just Cross country, mainly on the NE-SW route

Short HSTs - GWR on the Cardiff - Penzance corridor, and Scotrail on Inter7city services.

There are plenty of rumours that the DfT are keen to get rid of the XC and GWR sets, enjoy thrm while you still can!

 

[Isaiah]

Is there a place/website where I can find out what time and what place they will be running? I am keen to get a few rides on them before they are gone for good.

 

[Peter Mugridge]

Is there a place/website where I can find out what time and what place they will be running? I am keen to get a few rides on them before they are gone for good.

They appear on Real Time Trains.

 

[507020]

Roughly
GWR - Cardiff to Taunton / Plymouth / Penzance
Cross Country - Edinburgh / Leeds to Plymouth (very limited)
Scotrail - Edinburgh / Glasgow to Aberdeen / Inverness

And that is basically it. On 2 consecutive days in November I did Newport - Taunton (via Weston-super-Mare) and then Exeter - Tamworth (avoiding Weston-super-Mare) which was about as much as I could manage for long distance journeys, with the excuse of going to Okehampton!

Full length HSTs - just Cross country, mainly on the NE-SW route

Short HSTs - GWR on the Cardiff - Penzance corridor, and Scotrail on Inter7city services.

There are plenty of rumours that the DfT are keen to get rid of the XC and GWR sets, enjoy thrm while you still can!

And they now only reach 125mph between Tamworth and Derby, where I haven’t been. I have to say there is a lot more enjoyment to be had out of the remaining HSTs in whatever limited amount of time they have left than there is in the many more Voyagers however long they last!

Is there a place/website where I can find out what time and what place they will be running? I am keen to get a few rides on them before they are gone for good.

Yes

Loco Hauled 2023

Other pages on the same site for GWR and ScotRail.

 

[Horizon22]

Full length HSTs - just Cross country, mainly on the NE-SW route

Short HSTs - GWR on the Cardiff - Penzance corridor, and Scotrail on Inter7city services.

There are plenty of rumours that the DfT are keen to get rid of the XC and GWR sets, enjoy thrm while you still can!

They're getting very expensive to run the sets I think which is why the DfT/Treasury are so keen on getting rid!

 

[hexagon789]

And they now only reach 125mph between Tamworth and Derby, where I haven’t been.

Do you mean that's the only section of 125mph running by HSTs you haven't been on or the last section HSTs do run at 125mph on? Because they still do 125 when they venture north of York on the ECML, as two sets doing Plymouth-Edinburgh/Edinburgh-Plymouth did on Monday.

 

[Wyrleybart]

Is there a place/website where I can find out what time and what place they will be running? I am keen to get a few rides on them before they are gone for good.

The most likely trains are 1V44 Leeds-Plymouth which normally forms 1S51 Plymouth-Glasgow and 1V50 Edinburgh-Plymouth which normally forms 1E63 Plymouth-Leeds on Mondays to Thursdays. But this tends to depends on whether DfT allow XC to use the HSTs during the week. The third diagram which has worked a few weeks recently is 1M49 Plymouth-Birmingham which goes "round the houses" empty then forms 1V61 Birmingham-Plymouth.

As has been suggested, look up Realtimetrains on the day, but sometimes the HST off 1V50 goes empty to Laira and a fresh set coms out for 1E63.

 

[DarloRich]

Always worth remembering there is one HST you cant travel on At this rate it will be the last one in service.

And they now only reach 125mph between Tamworth and Derby, where I haven’t been.

or York to Darlington

 

[HamworthyGoods]

Always worth remembering there is one HST you cant travel on At this rate it will be the last one in service.

Depends how much momentum this ASLEF mandate gets, the NMT drivers are mostly ASLEF so Colas could be another business looking for replacement / rebuilding to strengthen cabs.