First Great Western HST Diverted from London Waterloo | 04/04/15

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During Easter weekend & Bank Holiday Monday 2015 the Great Western Mainline was undergoing major engineering work in the Reading area. Because of this First Great Western were forced to run an amended timetable out of London and operate via different routes. During this weekend FGW operated an hourly service from London to Plymouth or Penzance but it operated from South West Trains' London hub, at Waterloo. As well as the hourly services from Waterloo, FGW were also running a twice hourly service from Paddington. However they did not run down the usual route for obvious reasons. Instead they headed towards Greenford and Northolt then join the Chiltern Mainline down to Banbury where they then reverse towards Oxford and rejoin the mainline at Didcot for services towards Bristol the West Country and Cardiff and South Wales.
This video includes the journey onboard a HST down the South West Mainline from London Waterloo to Taunton via Basingstoke, Salisbury and Westbury, where we rejoin the usual route through Castle Cary and onwards to Taunton and the south west.
Quite surreal filming from a HST going through South suburban London, like Clapham & Wimbledon.
19:08 Look out for the not so great member of SWT staff at Basingstoke, swearing down his walky talky quite loudly :/

I also filmed a video from a diverted HST down the Chiltern route, so check that one out too! :)

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