Full Video of the new high speed trains for UK

Full Video of the new high speed trains for UK, plan for the east coast main line and great western main line To enter service in 2013.

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• UK
• East
• Coast
• Main
• Line
• Great
• Western
• New
• High
• Speed
• Train
• 2013
• Super
• Express
• Hitachi

[Notsodrunk87]

Will these be tilting trains? and it is dissapointing that they are foreign designed and built......then again most thing in Britain arent Brittish these days

[carlallen2007]

How I hear it the trains will not tilt, but to be fair they have been built to replace the Intercity 125 and 225 on the East Coast and Great Western lines, which are mostly straight, not like the West Coast Line.

[stepheng1483]

What's wrong is it's a humiliation for Britain to get a foreign country to design and build our trains, we should've designed and built our own.

"ended up with a piece of shit as usual" Are our 125s or 225s shit? Was Mallard and Flying Scotsman shit?

[Englander83]

It's a disgrace these trains won't be built in Britain.

[FlanMangler]

Anyway, my issues would be:

Serious: I hope the production version won't be 5 coaches or everyone will have the pleasure of being packed in like on all current Cross-Country services. Awful 'sardines in a crushd tin box' type feeling. Not good when you're standing up for over an hour and a half.

Less Serious: What's with the awful bogies? Can't anyubody design bogies any more? :)

[alankeenan9]

With regards to earlier comments about having to get foriegn built trains , rather than build our own . Under European law the UK must comply , and put out to tender via a bidding process , the contracts to build new trains . Plus the fact the most of the railways works left in UK are foriegn owned as well . The old BR way sadly in hindsight was actually better . But that is politics and as you know we are well f****D on that basis . Just look at the current coalition government . Oh deary me .

[vulgarmachine2]

@mudwizard

Couldn't agree more. Plus, it's worse for the environment to source new trains and then ship them here.

I don't get why they want to replace the 225 fleet either. It's being made out that they are elderly and not very comfortable. They are neither. Being barely 20 years old. Gawd, I was on a 40 year old pacer the other week. They're not being replaced... Took 1 hour 30 to do a 40 mile journey.

[mudwizard]

No business case.

No environmental case.

No money to pay for it.

Do not believe the government propaganda. Somebody will make a lot of money out of this white elephant and it will not be you the taxpayer.

[SteamboatWilley]

@sabirdave Totally agree. We've had roughly 30 years of successive governments thinking they could base an economy on money lending, while running manufacturing into the ground, and look where that got us. We need to bring back wealth-creating industries!

[joshieboi005]

@Notsodrunk87 Moan Moan Moan. Get the fuck over it.

[richard123x1]

rubbish train hsts are better hope it gets srcapped

[richard123x1]

rubbish train hsts are better hope it gets srcapped

[XrGrimreap3rX]

Wheels on trains are a thing of the past. They should have gone for maglev trains. They are far more efficient as they don't have wheels which causes friction and reduces speed.