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GWR Class 150 No.150261 stands in Platform 2 at Taunton ready to depart with the 2L07 15:37 Taunton - Bishops Lydeard on the 3rd August 2019. (Photo: Rob Sherwood) 27th July 2019 GWR Class 150/2 No. 150265 passes Norton Fitzwarren operating the new West Somerset Railway link/shuttle service from Taunton Station.
Feb 28, 2020 · At the end of March 2020, Great Western Railway says goodbye to the prototype Class 150s as they move on to pastures new. To mark their passing we are running a special tour with one of these historic trains over different parts of the GWR network to raise money for First Group’s chosen charity: Action for Children.
A First Great Western Class 150 in ex-Silverlink Livery arrives at Weston-Super-Mare with the service to Taunton
On Sunday 18th December 2016 First Great Western Class 150/2 No.150249 and Class 153 No.153369 Cogload Junction while working 2K18 08:33 Exeter St Davids - Avonmouth. (Photo: Brian Garrett) 8th October 2016 GWR provided a Class 150 'shuttle' service to the West Somerset Railway in conjunction with the Autumn Steam Gala Weekend.
As part of the Great Western 150, a rake of coaches was specially converted and painted as a traveling museum charting the progress which had been made on the GWR between 1935 and 1985. The were stabled in the old Minehead Bay Platform adjacent to Railway Street. Gary Stone has provided two images which shows the detail of the coaching stock.
22nd August 2015 First Great Western colourful liveries often make a nice photograph in the sun, here a Class 150/2 and 150/1 combination formed of No.150248 and No.150127 operate the 2U16 12:07 stopping service from Taunton to Cardiff Central on the 28th August 2015.
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Class 150 prototype 150002 at Taunton. It is a credit to the engineers that 34 years since coming into service these two prototype units are still in traffic. The Wirksworth Branch is now a successful heritage railway namely the Ecclesbourne Valley Railway.
