Ch5 - Intercity 125 :The Train That Saved Britains Railways

Broadcast on Channel 5, 15th May 2018
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Chris Tarrant takes us for a trip into the heritage and modern history of the great Intercity HST.
From the original conception as the doomed APT, into what would become the fastest diesel train in the world.
From the prototype 41001 into what would become the Class 250 then the 43 as we know it. With footage of when the 125 group restored and operated the prototype, with interviews from press personalities such as Tim Dunn, Christian Wolmar to many others, to the designer of the HST, Sir Kenneth Grange, into taking on the deltic in the late 70's.
From the upmarket express trains to restaurant trains, and the infamous "British Rail Sandwich" into Pullman, and then into privatisation.