ARCHIVE: New rail record of 152.3 mph (245.1 km/h) achieved!

Lined up in Swindon Station about 1975 are the prototype HST and APT. Apparently the prototype APT was tried out on the Great Western Main Line, and achieved a new British railway speed record on 10 August 1975 when it hit 152.3 mph (245.1 km/h) whilst on test with the Western Region between Swindon and Reading. (More […]

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