A couple of sightings around Bristol

[tyler4bcfc1]

my dad works behind st phillips marsh depot bristol, this morning he heard a steam train whistle, i have looked but i cant see any that are in bristol apart from braunton, does anybody know which train this was. and also he said he saw a virgin train hst a bristol temple meads, do virgin trains still go to bristol

thanks

 

[swt_passenger]

Not been any Virgin HSTs for many years. It would be one of the five belonging to XC, which has been run by Arriva since November 2007 (although they don't highlight the Arriva name at all on their XC stock).

 

[tyler4bcfc1]

Not been any Virgin HSTs for many years. It would be one of the five belonging to XC, which has been run by Arriva since November 2007 (although they don't highlight the Arriva name at all on their XC stock).

he said he saw a purple/blue train so thats fgw, he said he saw cross country, and the he said he saw a red and silver train

 

[1e10]

The steam train he heard was most likely this.

http://www.realtimetrains.co.uk/train/U54500/2013/08/31/advanced

 

[heart-of-wessex]

That was 57315 throughout, though Nunney Castle was also in the area. Otherwise might have been the Southall - Bristol ECS, which was a 47 piloting a steam loco

 

[Boothby97]

he said he saw a purple/blue train so thats fgw, he said he saw cross country, and the he said he saw a red and silver train

Could it have been a South West Trains 158/159 (red, orange and white). A photo of a birds eye view of the depot (taken last month) shows a SWT 158 at the depot. http://www.flickr.com/photos/gary_morris/9590368915/ (not my photo).
Its just visible in the centre of the photo, within the FGW HSTs and 158s.