Cleared for the Up Main out of Swansea
Our HST powers up
Passing Llandore depot
Approaching Neath,our first station stop
view from the platform at Neath
As we pull away an Arriva 175 pulls in with a Milford Haven service from Manchester
Now approaching Port Talbot Parkway
As we depart the Welsh hills are clearly visible
A view from the car park as we approach Bridgend
I lost most of the Cardiff pictures, here is our HST passing under the line for Cardiff Queen St
A cab-view approach to Newport, the real linespeed is 20mph on approach to Casnewydd
And now a view from the platform
Crossing the River Usk on departure,next stop in 25 mins is Bristol Parkway
70 mph through Severn Tunnel Junction
Maintaining 70 as we enter the west portal
The 09;15 Padd-Cardiff passes us inside the Severn Tunnel
We enter England and power up to 80mph until Patchway
Emerging from Patchway Tunnel
The line to Filton is off to the right as we go left for Bristol Parkway
2D02 arrives into platform 4 at Parkway with the 10;09 from Weston S Mare
We now head for Swindon and for the first time in over 1/1/2 hours we can exceed 100mph
Which we obtain just prior to Westerleigh Junction,where the line to Cheltenham diverges
up to 120 mph as we enter Chipping Sodbury Tunnel
and as we exit we travel on the only 125 part of the entire route from Swansea to Swindon
Wootton Bassett Junction, 6 miles to Swindon
We arrive on platform 3 at Swindon station
On platform 2, a Class 158 waits with thw 11;54 to Cheltenham Spa.
I hope you enjoyed this shots, the activity will be released very soon with part two for Europeanbahns London to Swindon route following .
Jamie
