The Pendolino fleet was being introduced by Virgin West Coast when I was previously working in London in the early part of the century. For whatever reason, I never ended up using them before we left and then it never happened while we lived in the US. Now we are back in the UK, various work trips have had me use them at last and I have to say that I am quite impressed. Given that they are now over 20 years old, they are still a decent experience as a passenger.

The operator is now Avanti. They have been bolstering the fleet with some Hitachi trains which I have also tried on a couple of occasions. I was eating lunch near the west coast mainline and got some shots of the trains as they zipped north and south. (This was when I got the shots of the pan on one of the trains that I posted about previously.)