List of British Rail Class 43 (HST) power cars

For broader coverage of this topic, see British Rail Class 43 (HST).

Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the power cars of British Rail's InterCity 125 High Speed Train. The power cars were built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982, and have been in service in the UK since 1976.

List

Key:	In service	Stored	Scrapped	Preserved	Exported

Original Number	New Number	Name	Operator	Previous Operator	Livery	Status	Notes
43002	–	Sir Kenneth Grange [1]	National Railway Museum	Great Western Railway	InterCity Blue & Grey	Preserved	Preserved at the National Railway Museum. Part of the National Collection.
43003	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service	Formerly Isambard Kingdom Brunel. [2]
43004		Caerphilly Castle	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway
43005	–	St. Michael's Mount		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Scrapped	Withdrawn 24 February 2023, used as a source of spares at Plymouth Laira depot. [3] Sent for scrap at Sims Metal, Newport on 4 July 2023.
43006	43206			London North Eastern Railway	InterCity Blue & Grey	Stored	Used in LNER HST charity railtour along with 43312. Stored at Ely.
43007	43207		CrossCountry Midland Mainline	InterCity Blue & Grey	Re-vinyled into British Rail Blue & Grey livery in July 2023. [4]
43008	43208		London North Eastern Railway CrossCountry	InterCity Swallow	Formerly Lincolnshire Echo . Nameplate sold in 2020. [5] Re-vinyled into InterCity Swallow livery in 2023. [4]
43009	–	Nunney Castle [6]	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway	Exported	43010 formerly named TSW Today , denamed January 1993, after TSW stopped broadcasting. [6]
43010		Lydford Castle [6]
43011	–			First Great Western	FGW 'Fag Packet'	Scrapped	Scrapped after the Ladbroke Grove Rail Crash. [6]
43012	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43013		Mark Carne OBE [7]	Network Rail	Virgin CrossCountry	Network Rail Yellow		Used for the New Measurement Train. Buffered. [7]
43014		The Railway Observer [7]
43015			ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail
43016		Powderham Castle	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway
43017	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Ely.
43018	–	The Red Cross [1]	Crewe Heritage Centre	Great Western Railway	Intercity Blue and Grey	Preserved	Preserved at Crewe Heritage Centre.
43019	–			First Great Western	First Great Western	Scrapped	Scrapped after the Ufton Nervet Rail Crash.
43020	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Ely.
43021	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43022	–	Nether Stowey Castle		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Exported	Withdrawn 21 January 2023, stored at Plymouth Laira depot. [8] Exported to Mexico in August 2023 as FIT3008. [9]
43023	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Preserved
43024							Preserved at Colne valley railway.
43025	–	“The Institution of Railway Operators”	125 Group	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Preserved	Preserved by the 125 Group at Ruddington. [10]
43026	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway			Formerly City of Westminster and Michael Eavis .
43027	–	Acton Castle	Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Formerly Westminster Abbey and Glorious Devon. Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43028	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43029	–	Caldicot Castle	Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43030	–			Great Western Railway	ScotRail	Scrapped	Scrapped after the Stonehaven derailment [12]
43031	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43032
43033							Formerly Driver Brian Cooper.
43034
43035
43036
43037
43038	43238			East Midlands Railway	LNER all red	Stored	Formerly National Railway Museum 40 Years 1975-2015. Nameplate sold in 2020. [5]
43039	43239			London North Eastern Railway CrossCountry	Crosscountry	In service
43040	–	Berry Pomeroy Castle	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway		Vinyled in a Falklands 40 livery in June 2022. [13]
43041	–	St Catherine's Castle		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Scrapped	Withdrawn January 2023, used as a source of spares at Plymouth Laira depot. [8] Sent for scrap at Sims Metal, Newport on 5 July 2023.
43042	–	Tregenna Castle	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway	In service
43043	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Scrapped	Scrapped at Sims Metal, Newport, April 2023. [14]
43044	–	Edward Paxman [1]	125 Group	East Midlands Railway	InterCity Executive	Preserved	Purchased by the 125 Group in 2021. Is expected to have its original Valenta engine restored. [15] Currently stored at the Nottingham Heritage Railway.
43045		The Doncaster School AD1450	125 Preservation	Colas Rail	East Midlands Trains		Entered preservation at the Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre. [16] Now at Railworld / NVR
43046		Geoff Drury 1930-1999 Steam Preservation and Computerised Track Recording Pioneer	Locomotive Services Limited	East Midlands Railway	Blue Pullman		Blue Pullman livery. [17]
43047					Blue Pullman
43048			125 Group		East Midlands Trains		Preserved at 125 Group. Formerly T.C.B. Miller MBE.
43049		Neville Hill [18]	Locomotive Services Limited		InterCity Swallow
43050	–			Colas Rail	East Midlands Trains	Stored	Stored at Long Marston.
43051	43251		Colas Rail	East Midlands Railway	LNER	In service
43052	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Scrapped	Awaiting scrapping at Kingsbury, September 2023
43053	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Scrapped at Sims Metal, Newport by March 2023. [19] Formerly University of Worcester .
43054	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Stored, will most likely be scrapped in future
43055	–		Locomotive Services Limited	East Midlands Railway	Blue Pullman	Preserved	Blue Pullman livery. [17]
43056			Welsh Railways Trust	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Preserved	Donated to the Welsh Railways Trust in 2021 and based at the Gwili Railway. [16] [20] Formerly Royal British Legion .
43057	43257		Colas Rail	East Midlands Railway	LNER	In service	Formerly Bounds Green. Nameplate sold in 2020. [5]
43058	–		Locomotive Services Limited [21]	East Midlands Railway	Rail Charter Services Green & Silver	Preserved	Painted green with a silver stripe in 2021. [21]
43059
43060	–	County of Leicestershire	125 Preservation	Colas Rail	East Midlands Trains	Preserved	Entered preservation at the Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre. [16] Now at Railworld / NVR
43061	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Scrapped	Scrapped at Sims Metal, Newport October 2021.
43062	–	John Armitt [7]	Network Rail	Virgin CrossCountry	Network Rail Yellow	In service	Used for the New Measurement Train. [7]
43063	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored
43064	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Scrapped	Scrappedat Sims Metal, Newport, April 2023. [14]
43065	43465		RailAdventure	East Midlands Railway	RailAdventure	In service	Buffered.
43066	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Stored
43067	43467	Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service British Transport Police Nottingham	RailAdventure				Buffered. One name on each side. Named after the crews responding to the Nottingham station fire on 12 January 2018. [22]
43068	43468		RailAdventure	East Midlands Railway	RailAdventure	In service	Buffered.
43069	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Used as a spares donor for Great Western Railway's fleet of ‘Castle’ power cars at Plymouth Laira depot, taken for scrapping at Sims Metal, Newport on 31 May 2022. [23]
43070							Scrapped at Sims Metal, Newport by March 2023. [19]
43071	–		Colne Valley Railway	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Preserved	Preserved by 125 Heritage in November 2021. [24] Formerly 'Forward Birmingham' after the Exmouth-based Trent.
43072	43272		Colas Rail	East Midlands Railway	LNER	In service	Based at Derby R.T.C.
43073	–	Neville Hill HST Depot 42 Years	Colne Valley Railway	East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Preserved	Preserved by 125 Heritage in November 2021. [24]
43074	43274		Colas Rail	East Midlands Railway	EMR Purple	In service	Formerly Spirit of Sunderland, nameplate sold in 2020. [5] Based at Derby R.T.C.
43075	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Scrapped	Scrapped at Sims Metal, Newport October 2021.
43076	–			East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Stored
43077	43277	Safety Task Force [25]	Colas Rail [25]	LNER	Colas/Network Rail [25]	In service [25]
43078	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Laira.
43079	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Scrapped at Sims Metal, Newport by March 2023. [19]
43080	43480	West Hampstead PSB	RailAdventure	East Midlands Railway	RailAdventure	In service	Buffered, exported to Germany September 2021. [26] Returned to Eastleigh in 2022.
43081	–		Crewe Heritage Centre	East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Preserved	Preserved at Crewe Heritage Centre. [27]
43082			Colne Valley Railway				The Railway Children [1] Preserved by 125 Heritage Ltd in October 2021. [24]
43083			Locomotive Services Limited
43084	43484		RailAdventure	East Midlands Railway	RailAdventure	In service	Buffered, exported to Germany September 2021. [26] Returned to Eastleigh in 2022.
43085	43285		Colas Rail	CrossCountry	Crosscountry	In service [3]
43086	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Laira
43087
43088	–	Dartmouth Castle		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Stored	Withdrawn 8 May 2023, stored at Plymouth Laira depot. [3]
43089	–		125 Group	East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	Preserved	Previously Hayabusa diesel-battery hybrid testbed.[ citation needed ] Preserved at 125 Group.
43090	43290		Network Rail	East Midlands Railway	LNER	In service	Formerly MTU Fascination of Power, nameplate sold in 2020. [5]
43091	–			Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Laira.
43092	–	Cromwell's Castle	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	In service
43093		Berkeley Castle					Formerly Old Oak Common HST Depot 1976-2018
43094		St Mawes Castle	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	In service	Still In use today until 2030
43095	43295			East Midlands Railway	LNER	Stored
43096	43296		RailAdventure		East Midlands Trains		Stored. To be used as a spares donor.
43097	–	Castle Drogo	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	In service	Formerly Environment Agency.
43098		Walton Castle
43099	43299		Network Rail	East Midlands Railway	LNER
43100	43300		–	London North Eastern Railway	LNER	Stored	Damaged in a collision with 800109 at Neville Hill on 13 November 2019. [28] Formerly named Craigentinny , nameplate sold in 2020. [5]
43101	43301		Stored	CrossCountry Virgin CrossCountry	Crosscountry
43102	43302	The Journey Shrinker 148.5 MPH The Worlds Fastest Diesel Train	National Railway Museum	East Midlands Railway	InterCity Swallow	Preserved	Along with 43159, 43102 (43302) holds the world record for the fastest diesel locomotive in the world. Repainted into InterCity Swallow livery in February 2021. [29] Donated to the National Railway Museum after withdrawal from service in May 2021 and currently on display at Shildon. [30] [31] [32]
43103	43303		Stored	CrossCountry Virgin CrossCountry	Crosscountry
43104	43304	CrossCountry Midland Mainline
43105	43305		–	East Midlands Railway	LNER	Stored
43106	43306
43107	43307
43108	43308		RailAdventure				Stored. To be used as a spares donor. Formerly named BBC Television Railwatch and later named Highland Chieftain , nameplate auctioned in 2020. [5]
43109	43309		–
43110	43310
43111	43311			London North Eastern Railway
43112	43312				British Rail Blue & Grey		Used in LNER HST charily railtour along with 43206. Stored at Ely.
43113	43313			London North Eastern Railway	LNER	Scrapped	Damaged in a collision on 31 October 2019. [33] [ full citation needed ] Was previously stored for use as a source of spare parts for CrossCountry. [34] Taken for scrapping at Sims Metal, Newport on 23 February 2022. [35]
43114	43314			East Midlands Railway		Stored
43115	43315			London North Eastern Railway
43116	43316			East Midlands Railway
43117	43317
43118	43318	Celebrating Forty Years
43119	43319
43120	43320
43121	43321		Colas Rail	CrossCountry	CrossCountry	In service [3]
43122	–	Dunster Castle	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	Stored	Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43123	43423	Valenta 1972-2010	RailAdventure	East Midlands Railway	East Midlands Trains	In service	Buffered.
43124	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43125
43126
43127
43128
43129
43130
43131
43132
43133
43134		Gordon Aikman BEM					Named in June 2021. [36]
43135
43136
43137
43138
43139							Formerly Driver Stan Martin.
43140	–		–	ScotRail	Abellio Scotrail	Scrapped	Scrapped after the Stonehaven derailment.
43141	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43142
43143
43144
43145
43146
43147
43148
43149
43150
43151							Formerly known as Blue Peter II.
43152
43153	–		Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	Stored	Formerly Chûn Castle [37] and The English Riviera.[ citation needed ] Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43154		Compton Castle					Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43155		Rougemont Castle					Formerly The Red Arrows. Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43156	–	Maen Castle	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	In service	Formerly Dartington International Summer School
43157	43357		Colas Rail	CrossCountry	CrossCountry	In service [3]
43158		Kingswear Castle		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Exported	Withdrawn 11 May 2023. [3] Exported to Mexico in August 2023.
43159	–		125 Group	Great Western Railway	Midland Mainline	Preserved	Donated to the 125 Group in 2021, [38] currently stored awaiting restoration at the Nottingham Heritage Railway. Along with 43102 (43302), 43159 holds the world record for the fastest diesel locomotive in the world.
43160	–	Castle-an-Dinas		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Stored	Withdrawn 18 February 2023, stored at Plymouth Laira depot. [39] Formerly named 'Storm Force' after the RNLI club for children.
43161	-		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Laira for use as spare donor. [39]
43162	–		Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	Stored	Formerly Caerhays Castle [37] Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43163	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In Service	Involved in the Southall Rail Crash.
43164
43165	–		Colne Valley Railway	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Preserved	Preserved at the Colne Valley Railway in Halstead, Essex. Previously stored at Ely Papworth sidings.
43166	43366	HST 40 Celebrating 40 years of High Speed Train services on the CrossCountry Network [40]	Stored	Midland Mainline CrossCountry	CrossCountry [40]	stored
43167	43367		–	London North Eastern Railway	LNER	Stored	Formerly Deltic 50 1965-2005.
43168	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43169
43170	–	Chepstow Castle		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Stored	Withdrawn 20 May 2023. Stored at Ely. [3] Exported to Mexico in August 2023 as FIT3007. [9]
43171	–	Raglan Castle		Great Western Railway	Great Western Railway	Scrapped	Withdrawn 20 May 2023. [3] Sent for scrap at Sims Metal, Newport on 6 July 2023.
43172	–	Tiverton Castle	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway	In service	Formerly Harry Patch.
43173	–		–	Great Western Trains	Great Western Trains 'Merlin' [41] [ full citation needed ]	Scrapped	Scrapped after the Southall Rail Crash.
43174	–		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored	Stored at Ely.
43175	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43176
43177
43178	43378		Stored	Midland Mainline CrossCountry	Crosscountry
43179	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail
43180	–		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Moved to Sims Metal, Newport on 2 February 2023. [19]
43181	–		ScotRail	Great Western Railway	ScotRail	In service
43182
43183
43184	43384	Laira Diesel Depot [ citation needed ]	Stored	Midland Mainline CrossCountry	InterCity Executive [42]		Painted in current livery in 2022. Displays unit number 253051 and original vehicle number 43184. [42]
43185	–		–	Great Western Railway	InterCity Swallow	Stored	Formerly Great Western.
43186	–	Taunton Castle	Great Western Railway		Great Western Railway	In service
43187		Cardiff Castle / Y Cymro The Welshman
43188		Newport Castle / Y Cymro The Welshman / Geraint Thomas
43189		Launceston Castle
43190	–		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Stored
43191							Stored at Ely.
43192	–	Trematon Castle	Great Western Railway	-	Great Western Railway	In service
43193	–		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Used as a spares donor for Great Western Railway's fleet of ‘Castle’ power cars at Plymouth Laira depot, taken for scrapping at Sims Metal, Newport on 31 May 2022. [23]
43194	–	Okehampton Castle	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	Stored	Withdrawn December 2023. [11]
43195	–		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Stored as a source of spare parts at Plymouth Laira after hitting a tree. Moved to Sims Metal, Newport on 1 February 2023. [19]
43196	–		Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	Stored at Laira
43197	–		–	Great Western Railway	First Great Western	Scrapped	Used as a spares donor for Great Western Railway's fleet of ‘Castle’ power cars at Plymouth Laira depot, taken for scrapping at Sims Metal, Newport on 31 May 2022. [23]
43198	–	Driver Brian Cooper 15 June 1947 - 5 October 1999 Driver Stan Martin 25 June 1950 - 6 November 2004.	Great Western Railway	Virgin CrossCountry	Great Western Railway	In service	One name on each side. Formerly Oxfordshire 2007.

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