Kestrel, APT-E and the Prototype HST

A selection of newsreels showing the three above subjects.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Train
• Newsreel
• APT-E
• HST
• Intercity
• 125

[Splazz]

"Gentleman of the press!!!?? Since when has anyone of the press been a gentleman."

Yeah, especially when they helped kill the APT. Bastards!!

[adelestevens]

I wonder what happened to inviting the public to comment on outfitting trains in the uk?

Oh yeah! If they did then the pendolino would have been scrapped.

Terrible seats in a claustrophobic atmosphere.

APT really was miles better!

[ts3830]

@thehoff1982 its funny how pendalino can only run on track that the apt-p ran on 30yrs ago because the origional tilt sensors are still there on the track lol otherwise it could run but not tilt. to think with a fraction of what the HS2 line will cost we could have improved 200mph british built apt trains running on standard rail today? polotics has always seen to destroy what this nation creates for the good? why? i agree its al so sad

[thehoff1982]

Notice how back then we built things which pushed boundaries instead of importing inferior products. APTs top speed - 155. pendolino top speed - 125 why? Modern expresses should be capable of over 200 if progress still exists. Also, we have never built a loco more powerful than Kestrel - 3,300hp from a tin shed? Pathetic!

[sandletters39]

HS4000 was a 1968 equivalent of the recently-introduced GE Class 70 only being 300 hp more than the latter and weighing two tons less and its a crying shame that BR didn't realise its potential need for forthcoming heavy block trains such as aggregates from Somerset or Port Talbot-Llanwern iron-ore traffic.

[clusterfak]

@plasticspastic201 You got that right dude.

[WaerzMedia09]

@fouloleron2002

Same with York to London, instead of going to Leeds by train then going to Leeds Intl, I'd rather get an East Coast 91 cause its only 2 hours and its cheaper.

[fouloleron2002]

@WaerzMedia09 Manchester to London by air is slower and more expensive. That is why I always go by Virgin Trains pendo.

[papero40]

a brain a brain ha it just a aws system

[plasticspastic201]

drivers and stokers of the steam days were trained up on these. so the commentator can STFU with his "certainly scratch their heads" crap.

[bwhugul]

What was the music track called during the APT-E part?

[phillyslasher]

@WaerzMedia09 The railroads in Britain can successfully compete with the airlines because rail travel times and air travel times are close enough where it's not advantageous to fly. In America it's like that in the northeast like from Boston to New York to D.C and California between Los Angeles and San Diego. But yeah, the economics of air travel all over and certainly in the US has been at an alltime low.