InterCity 125
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The InterCity 125 or High Speed Train is a diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982. A total of 95 sets were produced, each comprising
An InterCity 125 in original British Rail livery
The Blue Pullmans, which were in service between 1960 and 1973, are often seen as forerunners of the HSTs.
Class 252 prototype HST at Weston-super-Mare in 1975
An InterCity 125 about to depart Manchester Piccadilly in 1986
New South Wales XPT
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The XPT is a class of diesel-powered passenger train operated around eastern Australia built by Comeng and ABB. Based on the British Rail-designed High Speed Train, each XPT set comprises a power car
InterCity 125
…remain in service with ScotRail, with one used as an engineering train with Network Rail. The HST design became the basis for an Australian variant, the Express Passenger Train (XPT), which entered service in New South Wales in 1982. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the British Transport Commission (BTC) was modernising its rail…
An XPT passing through Galong, New South Wales, 2024
Economy-class carriage, 2008
XP2008, in the original State Rail Authority livery, in Melbourne, 1990
XP2007, in the original CountryLink livery, in Wagga Wagga, 2008