Repainted into its original XP64 colours by Virgin for its last days as a Cross Country machine, 47853 became quite a celebrity. It has now passed into Freightliners hands and in what could almost be a time warp back to its last Virgin workings its seen passing Coed Kernew with a rake of ex-virgin stock on its way to Cardiff for a Rugby game.
 

67029 enjoyed a day out with 67006 providing a shuttle service between Cardiff and Newport before the Play Off finals at the Millennium stadium in May. Used mainly in top and tail mode the GM's proved a big hit with the operators and look like being the future for this type of special.

The recent conversion of First Great Westerns class 47's into class 57's has seen the original "body snatcher" 57601 snapped up by the West Coast Railway Company. Thankfully it has lost its garish purple Porterbrook livery in favour of far more pleasing and traditional colours.

Here 37197, 37038 and 47840 are seen on a special working forced on the railways by the lack of spare capacity on a system dominated by multiple units. The trio head past Coed-Kernew on their way to Cardiff Central for a late date with a rugby match.