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Intercity 125s made an instant step-change in performance over locomotive-hauled services thanks to their superior acceleration and braking, as John Heaton FCILT describes. IT is late on a dowdy autumn afternoon in October 1976 in drab...
Following on just a few months after the Stockton & Darlington Railway opened in 1825 was Scotland’s equivalent, the Monkland & Kirkintilloch Railway, as Don Martin reports. THE opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825...
Initially launched as fixed 2+7 sets for the Western Region and 2+8 for the Eastern, HSTS have been used in many other formations since then, as John Baker discovers.
BR manager Gordon Pettitt had a short spell on the Western Region in the late-1970s that coincided with the introduction and expansion of HST services. IWAS appointed chief passenger manager of the Western Region in February 1978 after...