Its weird seeing 1980s footage of the HST, they looked grimy and well worn as if they were 40 years old back then. But in todays modern liveries and their refurbs, they look like trains built in the early 2000s. The design has aged extremely well, they look even more modern and elegant now.

Cracking video.! It will be a sad day when they are no more especially here in Leicester.....no HST's.....no wires....just slower point to point Bi-modes... :-(. Keep filming

thanks to hst's for over 40 years of service I will miss them when they are gone to ScotRail great video to watch

6:21 is by far the strangest mixture of coaches and engines I've ever seen

I miss those screaming valentas

these are my favourite British trains, the fastest diesel trains in the world, even to this day, these trains are record breakers and historic and love seeing all the smoke as they are revved up abd looking grungy

Great video. Love the HSTs such iconic locos.

It's always a pleasure to watch your videos, great one :)

Really good stuff,lots of different livery variations remember when hst's came onto the mml in1982!!!.

Hi MrDeltic, the first HST we see has the usual two first class coaches. The second coach appears to have a red stripe over the yellow first class stripe, is this just my eyes or did it indicate a first class dinning/buffet car? I remember going to Plymouth station about 1977 and seeing one of these for the first time....magic.

Yup.. That was VERY good viewing

Great video mate :) Amazing footage and I loved the intro!

I loved the silver swallow intercity livery.

Nice little tribute here Daz. Well done mate.

Wow 40 years since they started passenger service

Super video detailing the life of HST. Did you ever see Exec livery Intercity 125 and Swallow mark 3's mixed on the same train/rake?

awesome train video

I’m definitely gonna missed the valenta paxman engine noise beast on these power cars

Nice video!

It's a shame that no class 58s are currently in regular operation in the UK anymore.

It would be nice when they finally retire to do one more final speed run and break their own speed record using Valenta engines as the fastest diesel engine in the world, much like the SR71 blackbird is the fastest jet plane ever, and the world will know about the inter city 125 HST, great video.

That has surprise me allot about the intercity sleeper train keep up with these videos and i have just subscribe to you know

very cool

Am I the only one who thinks the grand central livery looks neat in the HSTs?

Is it alright if I use some of the IC 125 footage for a documentary on the Southall train collision? full credit will be given!

21:40 always wanted to know what that wailing sound is coming from the mk3 carriages?

21:49 anyone know why the coaches make that wailing screaming noise as they go past?

does anyone have any comments about the four that had Mirlees MB190 engines fitted in the late 80s.. I designed the governor/engine control system and spent a couple of years traveling about on them checking all was working ok.

I do feel that the time has come to retire these old warhorses, they must all be into the multi million miles by now. I know there was much frothage when they MTU'd them, it gave them a life extension of a few years, but time moves on. I hope a full rake at least is preserved, but where would you keep something that huge? Not many preserved lines are geared up to stable something that massive, it would also be nice to paint up a power car to match the prototype, but hey ho

What year was the clip at 15:15

They look weird with buffers at the front

The age of the train

it's kind of absurd from today's point of view. They spent more than half a billion pounds on the HST which is a class 43 diesel nightmare. That same money would at the time have been enough to electrify two more mainlines and operate them with class 87 and later class 90 and 91. Dieselisation was the single biggest mistake in the post war history of railway politics and even in the 1970s they did not change anything. Shame on them! 😠 An elderly friend of mine, a life-long railway enthusiast, said it best: "Of course I love the Deltics but they should never have been built." Same is true for the HST. Thank God electrification of the Great Western Mainline has just been completed from London to Bristol. That makes 3 mainlines (almost) entirely electrified. I totally understand that they went with diesel locos in the first 10-15 years after the war when Britain was heavily dependent on foreign loans and the false promise of "cheap oil" kinda hypnotized everybody. But since the 1960s dieselization was already obsolete. Roughly 60 years later Britain finally liberates itself from this historic mistake. Honestly, I can't wait to see one damn' class 43 after another being brought where they belong: One trainset for the railway museum and the rest, yes, TO THE SCRAP YARD!!!