BRITISH RAIL IS MOVING BUT NOT IN APT YET

Progress with the Advanced Passenger Train does not look as promising as the BR's High Speed Train has been. Nothing appears more certain than that the APT as now evolving, even at this end of several years and even more changes of mind, will never turn a wheel in profitable railway service. From the start, the programme has shown little evidence of practical design engineering sense, in particular, railway rolling stock engineering sense. The wealth of experience available in that field, in the British rolling stock industry, and in BR itself just across from the wonder train's birthplace seems to have found no place in the various bits of design that have so far come to light.

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• Corporate Authors:

  Ian Allan Limited

  Terminal House
  Shepperton, Middlesex  England  TW17 8AS
• Publication Date: 1973-9

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 338
• Serial:
  • MODERN RAILWAYS
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 300
  • Publisher: Ian Allan Publishing, Limited
  • ISSN: 0026-8356

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: High speed rail; Technology
• Identifier Terms: British Rail
• Geographic Terms: United Kingdom
• Old TRIS Terms: Advanced passenger trains
• Subject Areas: Railroads; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00048207
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Jan 4 1974 12:00AM