The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a tilting high speed train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s, for use on the West Coast...

A passenger train is a train used to transport people along a railroad line, as opposed to a freight train that carries goods. These trains may consist...

370 tilting trains, also referred to as APT-P (meaning Advanced Passenger Train Prototype), were the pre-production Advanced Passenger Train units. Unlike...

tilting train – the Advanced Passenger Train (APT). However, lack of money, political pressure and the launch of the prototype into passenger service before...

speed, objects inside the train experience centrifugal force. This can cause packages to slide about or seated passengers to feel squashed by the outboard...

railways, respectively, as well as the unsuccessful Advanced Passenger Train (APT). Gradually, passengers replaced freight as the main source of business...

Built by British Rail (BR) the 1970s and 1980s, this Class 370 Advanced Passenger Train (APT) is the only surviving APT-P set. Numbered 370 003/006, it...

The APT-E, for Advanced Passenger Train Experimental, was the prototype Advanced Passenger Train tilting train unit. It was powered by gas turbines, the...

sub-contract) in Italy, again borrowing heavily from the Advanced Passenger Train. The trains were designed to operate at up to 140 mph (225 km/h) in regular...

and Class 210 DEMUs and the experimental high-speed Advanced Passenger Train (APT) tilting train. Throughout the 1980s, BREL was subjected to repeated...

variety, which made marshalling trains more complicated and this information essential. The letters were: For hauled passenger carriages ('A' series), the...

proposed, including the introduction of the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) in the 1980s; an ill-fated high speed train which used tilting technology, which was...

prototype Advanced Passenger Train (APT) used hydraulic retarders to allow the high-speed train to stop in the same distance as standard lower speed trains, as...

primary high-speed train project, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT). The HSTs are now widely considered to be among the most successful trains to have operated...

initiative being British Rail Research Division's Advanced Passenger Train project. In addition to its use by trains, various elements of line-side infrastructure...

The JetTrain was an experimental high-speed passenger train concept created by Bombardier Transportation in an attempt to make European-style high-speed...

an enzyme family that cleaves cysteine thioesters Advanced Passenger Train, a tilting passenger train designed and built during the late 1970s by British...

high-speed freight and passenger rail services on existing rail infrastructure, leading to the initiation of the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) programme, with...

but have also been used on railways vehicles such as the British Advanced Passenger Train. The Froude waterbrake is based on hydrokinetic construction or...

one block section. This was an important consideration for the Advanced Passenger Train in the United Kingdom, where the lengths of block sections limited...

Rail Railway Technical Centre to observe the development of the Advanced Passenger Train. His visit coincided with the donation of the Chinese Government...

1971. 1975, 10 August – British Rail's experimental tilting train, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) achieved a new British speed record, the APT-E reaching...

followed these studies in the 1970s with a new tilting train design, the Advanced Passenger Train (APT). The technical design objectives for the APT included...

Hashamoto, the Japanese Shinkansen Bullet Train; and the City of Milton Keynes, the Advanced Passenger Train from Great Britain. Entries are about to close...

therefore highly conservative.[original research?] Advanced Passenger Train – Experimental tilting high speed train developed by British Rail Adhesion railway –...

Ticket Issuing System" as it was being developed at the time of the Advanced Passenger Train.[not verified in body] It was widely known as the All-Purpose Ticket-Issuing...

experience of high speed trains with central power cars, such as the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) and the Eurostar, have since altered this view. The later-built...

PPM for use in passenger trial) Multi-Purpose Vehicle (Purpose-built departmental vehicles) APT-E (Experimental Advanced Passenger Train unit) The original...

multiple units or railcars. Passengers and cargo are carried in railroad cars, also known as wagons or carriages. Trains are designed to a certain gauge...

Class 5 4-6-0 5000. As the line was then not electrified, the Advanced Passenger Train was also pushed, but by the latest diesel, Class 56, 077. The 'Grand...