HST Great West Driver's eye view preview (video125co) 10th November 2011

The first episode in Video 125's HST WEST trilogy begins at London's Paddington Station, the traditional home of the Great Western Railway.

Filmed in 1993, we travel aboard a British Rail InterCity 125 High Speed Train running at up to 125 miles an hour. We run non-stop to Reading, call at Swindon, Bath and Bristol Temple Meads. En route we see the Didcot Railway Centre to discover a little more about the broad gauge. Box tunnel's hidden eastern portal is seen from the cab. After Bristol TM, we travel down to Exeter, this section having been edited down to half real time.