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. These trains may consist of unpowered passenger railroad cars (also known...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

type of electric high-speed passenger train operated by Avanti West Coast in the United Kingdom, leased from Angel Trains. They are electric multiple...

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

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...

Line in 1989, and would thus have traced a lineage back to the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) that was planned to run on the WCML more than a decade earlier...

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

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

originally called "Advanced Passenger Ticket Issuing System" as it was being developed at the time of the Advanced Passenger Train.[citation needed] It was...

the last coach of each train. Trains were proposed to have a length of between 10 and 16 coaches. Each train will have a passenger capacity of between 1...

Centre and used in various high speed trials associated with the Advanced Passenger Train and InterCity 225 projects. In December 1990, 41002 was scrapped...

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

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

also be used to describe a train that is a permanent formation with a non-driving power car, such as the Advanced Passenger Train. As of December 2010[update]...

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

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...