I understand all those words…. but that is such a marketing term with no real meaning
the worst pollution is around train stations where unregulated diesel trains sit in stations with their engines running constantly. The trains you’re meant to take instead of your planet killing car
The Intercity 125 is legit the best train on our rails.
The ones that operate around our way have it such that ever seat is a part of table, and they’re nice and spacious. No cramming people in cheek by jowl.
What’s more is that they’re some of the last trains with a *real* guards carriage for stowing large items such big cases and bicycles. And they’re huge. You could get an entire peloton of bikes in there it’d have no impact on the rest of the train.
And finally, who doesn’t like rolling down the window so you can manually open the door from the outside handle when you get into the station.
I quite liked the days when Britain was at the forefront of rail, aeronautics, motors, shipbuilding etc.
Now our sole purpose as a country is to be a conduit for taxpayers money to offshore accounts. We’re basically just a kleptocracy run by aristocrats and neoliberals.
And that sucks big hairy balls, in my humble opinion.
For what was supposed to be a stop gap train for the APTs, Class 43s turned out to be one of the best trains this country has produced and the MK3 rolling stock is pretty awesome and comfy.
Enthusiast here: They’re hanging on by a thread, nowhere near how they used to be in terms of being the forefront of UK rail, but theyre still going mainly in the West Country (I think that’s Dawlish pictured), even tho they’re on their way out there I believe, and the rest are up in Scotland. Outside of Britain, though, theyre going to many far and distant lands, ive heard Mexico and Nigeria to name but two
I still remember my first journey on an Intercity 125 – Newark to Edinburgh day return in 1981 to go visit the city with a friend who had applied to University. Both of us blinked in amazement as the train started smoothly, not lurching like Deltics were prone to. We played the game measuring the speed of the train using the quarter mile gradient markers, and north of Newcastle recorded a speed in excess of 120mph. Over the years I must have made hundreds of journeys on these wonderful creations, it’s really great to see that they’re still relevant.
You watched Time shift on BBC iPlayer this week too eh? 😄
I think I have a picture of one of these being transported through town on its way to Mexico
Mostly because the damn goverment won’t allow the north to get overhauled and as long as diesels can run, it’s good enough. When diesels can’t run? Pacers 2.0. Oh, you thought they were gone? But it’s back. They are all back. The inexplicably shit and run down bus on wheels.
British trains are shit
No high speed lines. Trains are consistently late or absent and when they do run they cost a fucking fortune
I’d take an HST over any of the 800s any day of the week. Mk3 seats are so much comfier
I am very fond of the 125s but the UK’s heavy reliance on diesel traction is shameful. Paddington is a much nicer place to spend time now that these (and other diesels) don’t sit idling at platforms.
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>premium logistics freight trains.
I understand all those words…. but that is such a marketing term with no real meaning
the worst pollution is around train stations where unregulated diesel trains sit in stations with their engines running constantly. The trains you’re meant to take instead of your planet killing car
The Intercity 125 is legit the best train on our rails.
The ones that operate around our way have it such that ever seat is a part of table, and they’re nice and spacious. No cramming people in cheek by jowl.
What’s more is that they’re some of the last trains with a *real* guards carriage for stowing large items such big cases and bicycles. And they’re huge. You could get an entire peloton of bikes in there it’d have no impact on the rest of the train.
And finally, who doesn’t like rolling down the window so you can manually open the door from the outside handle when you get into the station.
I quite liked the days when Britain was at the forefront of rail, aeronautics, motors, shipbuilding etc.
Now our sole purpose as a country is to be a conduit for taxpayers money to offshore accounts. We’re basically just a kleptocracy run by aristocrats and neoliberals.
And that sucks big hairy balls, in my humble opinion.
For what was supposed to be a stop gap train for the APTs, Class 43s turned out to be one of the best trains this country has produced and the MK3 rolling stock is pretty awesome and comfy.
Enthusiast here: They’re hanging on by a thread, nowhere near how they used to be in terms of being the forefront of UK rail, but theyre still going mainly in the West Country (I think that’s Dawlish pictured), even tho they’re on their way out there I believe, and the rest are up in Scotland. Outside of Britain, though, theyre going to many far and distant lands, ive heard Mexico and Nigeria to name but two
I still remember my first journey on an Intercity 125 – Newark to Edinburgh day return in 1981 to go visit the city with a friend who had applied to University. Both of us blinked in amazement as the train started smoothly, not lurching like Deltics were prone to. We played the game measuring the speed of the train using the quarter mile gradient markers, and north of Newcastle recorded a speed in excess of 120mph. Over the years I must have made hundreds of journeys on these wonderful creations, it’s really great to see that they’re still relevant.
You watched Time shift on BBC iPlayer this week too eh? 😄
I think I have a picture of one of these being transported through town on its way to Mexico
https://imgur.com/a/TfeJll9
Mostly because the damn goverment won’t allow the north to get overhauled and as long as diesels can run, it’s good enough. When diesels can’t run? Pacers 2.0. Oh, you thought they were gone? But it’s back. They are all back. The inexplicably shit and run down bus on wheels.
British trains are shit
No high speed lines. Trains are consistently late or absent and when they do run they cost a fucking fortune
I’d take an HST over any of the 800s any day of the week. Mk3 seats are so much comfier
I am very fond of the 125s but the UK’s heavy reliance on diesel traction is shameful. Paddington is a much nicer place to spend time now that these (and other diesels) don’t sit idling at platforms.