Although FGW had planned to return the entire fleet in December 2007, it decided to retain three units until it had received a cascaded HST from National Express East Coast. A pair of the units operated in multiple on an early-morning Oxford to London commuter service, before being divided to work independently the rest of the day (after returning as empty stock to Oxford) on the Cotswold Line from Paddington to Worcester and Hereford. The final FGW 180 ran on 30 March 2009. The remainder were placed in store from December 2007 at Oxley TRSMD with the last withdrawn in March 2009.