Technology, Science and the Environment.

[davieG]

So near.

 

Leicester 50 years ago  · 

Stephen Butt

 

1973 - The prototype Advanced Passenger Train arrives at London Road station.

[Trav Le Bleu]

1 hour ago, davieG said:

So near.

 

Leicester 50 years ago  · 

Stephen Butt

 

1973 - The prototype Advanced Passenger Train arrives at London Road station.

Did that ever actually run? Didn't it end up being too fast for our rail system?

 

[davieG]

2 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Did that ever actually run? Didn't it end up being too fast for our rail system?

 

Not commercially but it did break some speed records, there were some technical issues which unfortunately showed up on a big publicised run. It then rain out of money the government wanted to spend on it especially as the 125 was doing well.

[BKLFox]

7 minutes ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Did that ever actually run? Didn't it end up being too fast for our rail system?

 

 

2 minutes ago, davieG said:

Not commercially but it did break some speed records, there were some technical issues which unfortunately showed up on a big publicised run. It then rain out of money the government wanted to spend on it especially as the 125 was doing well.

After the project was scrapped it went on to have a short acting career in Dr Who playing a dog

[davieG]

[Trav Le Bleu]

On 09/07/2026 at 08:56, davieG said:

Centring most atlas world maps on the Greenwich Meridian is very misleading. If you look at a world, for instance, in a Japanese atlas and it's centred on the international date line, then you have this great big blue space smack in the middle called the Pacific Ocean.