Date: 18/12/2015

It's 30 years since the Advanced Passenger Train carried its last passengers. In its short life it attracted scorn and mockery, but did the APT actually revolutionise the world of travel? Trains didn't used to tilt. They just ran quickly along straight lines and then slowed down when they came to a bend.

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The laughing stock that changed the world

BBC News Magazine

It's 30 years since the Advanced Passenger Train carried its last passengers. But did it in fact change the world?

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370 007 APT northbound through Carstairs on 22 April 1981
Location: Carstairs
Company: Caledonian Railway
22/04/1981 Peter Todd

Shunted into a siding due to lack of commitment. A section of the APT that ran in public service in the early 1980s, including parts of 370003, on display at Crewe Heritage Centre on 12 March 2011. A Virgin Voyager is passing northbound on the main line heading for Glasgow Central.
Location: Crewe Heritage Centre
Company: Crewe Heritage Trust
12/03/2011 John McIntyre

The unlikely sight of an APT-P being hauled by a class 37 through Newcastle Central in 1982.
Location: Newcastle Central
Company: Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
//1982 Colin Alexander