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The InterCity 125 (originally Inter-City 125) or High Speed Train (HST) is a diesel-powered high-speed passenger train built by British Rail Engineering Limited between 1975 and 1982. A total of 95 sets were produced, each comprising two Class 43 power cars, one at each end, and a rake of seven or eight Mark 3 coaches. The name is derived from ...
A BR HST set in original InterCity 125 Yellow and Blue livery The Large Logo livery on Class 50 (no. 50035) The first break in the uniformity of Rail Blue came in 1976, with the introduction of the first InterCity 125 (HST).
InterCity Blue & Grey: Re-vinyled into British Rail Blue & Grey livery in July 2023. [4] 43008: 43208: London North Eastern Railway. CrossCountry. InterCity Swallow: Formerly Lincolnshire Echo. Nameplate sold in 2020. [5] Re-vinyled into InterCity Swallow livery in 2023. [4] 43009 – Nunney Castle [6] Great Western Railway: Great Western ...
The "125" referred to the trains' top speed in miles per hour (mph), equivalent to 201 km/h, whereas "225" referred to the intended top speed in km/h (equivalent to 140 mph) and for signalling reasons their actual speed limit was the same 125 mph. [5] InterCity 250 was the name given by InterCity to the proposed upgrade of the West Coast Main ...
The British Rail Class 43 (HST) is the TOPS classification used for the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (formerly Classes 253 and 254) diesel-electric power cars, built by British Rail Engineering Limited from 1975 to 1982, and in service in the UK since 1976.
An InterCity Mark 3 Pullman coach at Nuneation in 1985. Mark 3 carriages were used on the Manchester Pullman from May 1985, with a batch of Mark 3b carriages being built at Derby as Intercity Pullman cars, some named. This was part of a revival of the Pullman brand by InterCity, with Merseyside and Yorkshire services being launched on the same ...
Kenneth Grange in October 2016 with an InterCity 125 power car 43185 at National Railway Museum in York, the nose cone for which he designed in the 1970s.. Sir Kenneth Henry Grange CBE RDI (17 July 1929 – 21 July 2024) was a British industrial designer, renowned for a wide range of designs for familiar, everyday objects.
Class 800 of LNER (left) next to a InterCity 125 of CrossCountry (right) at Leeds. As part of the UK Government's Intercity Express Programme (IEP), the Class 800 units were built as partial replacements for the InterCity 125 trains which at the time operated services on the Great Western Main Line and the East Coast Main Line, as well as the InterCity 225 trains which currently operate ...