Gwr HST diagrams ?

[kieran_]

Is Gwr still got their castle sets or are they fully withdrawal now ,

If not where parts do they currently travel form and to

 

[SuperLuke2334]

Is Gwr still got their castle sets or are they fully withdrawal now ,

If not where parts do they currently travel form and to

Mostly to be found on Cardiff to Penzance runs.

 

[Class172]

They are still in regular service. Just to take a sample from today, here are the departures from Taunton towards Cardiff—all of the services listed as 4 carriages long are highly likely to be a Castle HST.

Realtime Trains | Departures from Taunton all day on 11/05/2023

Train information at Taunton all day on 11/05/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[hexagon789]

They are still in regular service. Just to take a sample from today, here are the departures from Taunton towards Cardiff—all of the services listed as 4 carriages long are highly likely to be a Castle HST.

Realtime Trains | Departures from Taunton all day on 11/05/2023

Train information at Taunton all day on 11/05/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

Or even those labelled "GWR Castle Class"

 

[Snow1964]

Looks like there is GWR HST workings via Bath, Westbury and Castle Cary this week

eg 2C37 Bristol - Penzance, which comes up as pathed as High Speed Train at 125mph to Taunton, then diesel loco trailing 43 tonnes at 110mph

Realtime Trains | 2C37 0835 Bristol Temple Meads to Penzance | 18/09/2023

Real-time train running information for 2C37 0835 departure from Bristol Temple Meads to Penzance on 18/09/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

Looks like there is GWR HST workings via Bath, Westbury and Castle Cary this week

eg 2C37 Bristol - Penzance, which comes up as pathed as High Speed Train at 125mph to Taunton, then diesel loco trailing 43 tonnes at 110mph

Realtime Trains | 2C37 0835 Bristol Temple Meads to Penzance | 18/09/2023

Real-time train running information for 2C37 0835 departure from Bristol Temple Meads to Penzance on 18/09/2023. From Realtime Trains, an independent source of train running info for Great Britain.

www.realtimetrains.co.uk

Thats effectively the 0800 Cardiff-Penzance starting forward from Bristol and diverted via Westbury. I‘m guessing there is an engineering block somewhere between Bristol and Taunton this week? The use of standard HST timings via the diversion is probably because 2+4 HST timings don’t exist for that route.

 

[The exile]

Thats effectively the 0800 Cardiff-Penzance starting forward from Bristol and diverted via Westbury. I‘m guessing there is an engineering block somewhere between Bristol and Taunton this week? The use of standard HST timings via the diversion is probably because 2+4 HST timings don’t exist for that route.

The timing on from Taunton are even more interestingly described!

 

[D6975]

The timing on from Taunton are even more interestingly described!

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They are all described as diesel loco 43 t load. (with/without 110mph qualifier) as mentioned in post #5
This a fairly normal way of describing a 2+4 HST.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

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They are all described as diesel loco 43 t load. (with/without 110mph qualifier) as mentioned in post #5
This a fairly normal way of describing a 2+4 HST.

Although technically a 2+4 HST is 100mph max, so I suspect thats a data error in the way the underlying timing load has been set up.

 

[43096]

Although technically a 2+4 HST is 100mph max, so I suspect thats a data error in the way the underlying timing load has been set up.

2+4 HSTs have run at 125mph in the past.

 

[Wilts Wanderer]

2+4 HSTs have run at 125mph in the past.

That may be true, but the GWR sets are limited to 100mph.