







Class 43098 HST Leaves Basingstoke

Photo: Charles Moorhen





Trainspotting Class 43098 HST Smoking Out of Basingstoke Station





Trainspotting Class 43098 Intercity 125 , built in August 1978 and allocated to Landore T&RSMD (Swansea), in 'Swallow' livery introduced in 1987, leaving Basingstoke station in the 1990's in a cloud of diesel exhaust smoke, heading for Reading.





Brel/Paxman 43098 HST has carried two names. From 1985 to 1987 it was Tyne & Wear Metropolitan County, and from 1998 to 2004 it was Railway Children.





An old slam-door diesel multiple unit, in Network Southeast livery, can be seen in the background standing in the station's bay platform before heading towards Reading.









Basingstoke railway station historical note:

In the mid-1800s, a special train was permanently kept in a state of readiness by the London & South Western Railway for the sole use of the Duke of Wellington - hero of the Battle of Waterloo - at Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK, should he require it.





Wellington was not a fan of the 'new fangled railways' and it is not known if he ever used his train.









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