Tories. Tories hate the public sector and withdraw all funding, so that the "private sector" can do it. IE, cut it, flog it to your mates and buy it back at an inflated price.

Brandnew kitchen gun!

.......and the current bureaucracy has proved that again with the HS2 fiasco.

see hs2 now... we never learn

​​@@barrieshepherd7694Let's be quite honest tho. The way HS2 was supposed to be built was quite dumb and frankly too expensive. Instead of passing through the middle of nowhere, cutting through farms, fields etc., in many places you could have simply added two track besides existing rail lines and when necessairy pass under cities. Out of curiosity I looked at the existing HS2 Route and tried to find a better one, completely drive able at 350 kmh. Wasn't too difficult either just some more gentle curves here and there... Basically another case of politics blaming engineers and the like for problems politics cause. Would have been quite easily been able to extend up to york with my layout. About 60 - 70 % of the length could have been done next to existing linies. But no...

i hope mine doesnt ...

Your 2021 APT was made long after this video. The earlier model had no cardan shaft (not a camshaft).

@@TheRip72 You are right It was the biggest waste on money I ever spent on a model and the same happened to mine on the day I got it. My old APT ran fine for years until I converted my layout to DCC. I still have the old one and the new on is put back in the boxes.

Indeed. By now though, the APT would have been replaced - which makes me wonder, would we have ended up with a larger fleet of Hitachi 800s? Or perhaps would we have come up with something else?

@@Isee3 I think just based on the current timeline of events, Virgin would've still gotten the franchise for the WCML, which would've likely seen them refurbish the APTs - Then maybe at some point in the late 2010s, they would've placed a joint IET order for the then ECML franchise, and the WCML franchise, with only the latter ever making it under virgin. Places like Liverpool South Parkway would've been served a lot sooner, but at the cost of severe discomfort for all passengers on the WCML.

They don’t mention the InterCity 225 which worked, was designed for tilt to be added & reused the Apt tech.

@@Isee3 I thought class 800s were cool initially but now it seems like the only model of intercity train in the country is going to be a class 800 derivative in a minute.

What about hs2

There will be a double dose this week....

find the TGV synth video, you'll love it

Except it wasn't a flop, the government and press bullied it out of existence. By the time it was taken out of service for the last time, the problems were practically solved. APT-E was the APT Experimental. APT-P was the APT Prototype, which tested and refined the new technology, obviously new technology would have issues, but they get fixed. APT-S would have been the APT Squadron, the production APT with all issues solved.

​@@BritishTrainspotting exactly

@@YukariAkiyamaTanks A flop that never should have been!

@@BritishTrainspotting I think the InterCity 225 is the APT-S as it was developed from the APT, the Mk4 coaches look like the APT but without the shared bogies, single power car at one end of the train etc...

@@BritishTrainspottingI was told by Mr Tilt as he is known, one of the designers I met at York model show when Rapido were planning their APT-E model. One problem was APT-P used lower spec components for the tilt system and particles of seals were blocking a hydraulic oil filter causing the tilt failures BR Research had specified what components to use but as ever there were those who thought the cost was too high and forced BREL to get cheaper. When the project was cancelled that and most other problems had been solved but the press got their way with their untrue stories. Today the Pendolino tilts but you do not hear of anyone being ill on that because it is tilting. APT was far more advanced than they are with an active tilt system rather than a passive one used today. The difference is a much smoother ride because the trains onboard sensors detected the correct amount of tilt needed for the speed of the train. The derailment was not caused by bolts working loose, it was a hollow axle turbine brake that had a part assembled incorrectly which caused the axle to break when the water flowed in, another problem they made sure could not happen again by modification of the design.

pretty much the only ‘full’ display of one in the uk

It's actually displayed at the Crewe Heritage Centre, along with many other railway exhibits. And it's the only APT-P still left. The gas turbine powered APT-E is displayed at the Locomotion Museum at Shildon in Co. Durham.

I went there recently

Another thing Maggie killed off was BT fully fibring the UK all in the name of competition, she actually blocked BT from actually putting fibre into each and every property in the UK. BT actually had in house fibre optic manufacturing which was later sold off in early 90s.

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Yes they look very much like the APT...

I shall include them, as like in the other videos, in the description later :)

@@Isee3 Thanks!

its a museum, not rusting

Wdym crap music?

@@Baloongis2 The "music" isn't needed as you can't hear the narrators talking about it, it's...well crap !

There's always one, no ones forcing you to watch this video.

​@@toddhunter3137 Yet we are being forced to try and make out what the ITN newsreader chap is occasionally whispering.

​@@JP_TaVeryMuchPersonally I think the music 🎶 does quite well with this. It sort of captures the idea of it all back then.

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