Ride an Intercity 125 with a Contactless Card

What I really wanted to call this video, was "The Only Place Where You Can Catch An Intercity HST 125 Train By Using A Bank Contactless Card", but that's a bit of a mouthful.

It occurs because Luton Airport Parkway has now been added to the area in London where you can pay using a non-Oyster Contactless Card. And seeing as East Midlands Railway stop some HST's there, I thought it was worth a ride ...

Thanks to everyone one Twitter a couple of weeks ago who responded to my "Which Diagrams are always Class 43/HST?", you were all very helpful with your kind responses.

A note also to acknowledge that it was a Scotrail HST set that was involved in the Stonehaven crash recently, hence out of respect I refrained from mentioning how many of these units they have, as they now obviously have one less.

Finally, if you've read this far to the bottom of the comments, WELL DONE, you may go ahead and type "Slidey Windows, Slammy Doors!" in the comments below to confuse everyone else!