InterCity 225 set in original InterCity livery

A refurbished First Class carriage.

The InterCity 225 is the fastest loco-hauled domestic train in the United Kingdom, comprising a Class 91 electric locomotive, and nine Mark 4 coaches and a Driving Van Trailer. The Class 91 locomotives were built by BREL at Crewe works as a spin-off from the Advanced Passenger Train project, which was abandoned during the 1980s, whilst the coaching stock was built by GEC-Alsthom in Birmingham - again borrowing heavily from the APT - see High Speed Train page for more details. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2048x1536, 691 KB)BR Class 91/1, no. ... Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority in the East of England, with an estimated population of 161,000 as of 2006. ... for the singer see Jacques Brel BREL stands for British Rail Engineering Limited, which was the engineering division of British Rail Categories: Stub | British Rail(ways) ... Categories: Corporation stubs | Companies of France ... The UIC classification is a comprehensive system for describing the wheel arrangement of locomotives. ... GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) is a British train operating company (TOC) owned by Sea Containers Ltd. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (874x535, 66 KB) Summary © Andrew Hadley http://andrew-hadley. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (874x535, 66 KB) Summary © Andrew Hadley http://andrew-hadley. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 212 KB) The interior of a Mk IV first class carriage. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1024x768, 212 KB) The interior of a Mk IV first class carriage. ... A class 91 at Peterborough in the late 1980s wearing original InterCity Swallow livery. ... Modern three-phase AC locomotive (DBAG Class 152) A GG1 An electric locomotive is a locomotive powered by electric motors which draws current from an overhead wire (overhead lines), a third rail, or an on-board storage device such as a battery or a flywheel energy storage system. ... Interior of a refurbished first class coach. ... This article is about British DVTs, which are a type of railway control car. ... for the singer see Jacques Brel BREL stands for British Rail Engineering Limited, which was the engineering division of British Rail Categories: Stub | British Rail(ways) ... Map sources for Crewe at grid reference SJ705557 Crewe is a town in south Cheshire, in the north west of England. ... The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was an unsuccesful prototype tilting train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s. ... Alstom (formerly GEC-Alsthom) (Euronext: ALO) is a large French company whose businesses are power generation and manufacturing trains (e. ... Birmingham (pron. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Service history

The InterCity 225 entered service with British Rail on the East Coast Main Line in 1990. The units also operate on a small section of the West Coast Main Line between Glasgow and Carstairs. In 1996, as part of the privatisation of British Rail, all InterCity 225s were sold to HSBC Rail, which leases them to GNER. Logo of British Rail British Railways (BR), later rebranded as British Rail, ran the British railway system from the nationalisation of the Big Four British railway companies in 1948 until its privatisation in stages between 1994 and 1997. ... The East Coast Main Line viaduct at Durham. ... The WCML running alongside the M1 motorway at Watford Gap in Northamptonshire A Virgin Pendolino and freight train on the WCML The West Coast Main Line (WCML) is one of the most important intercity railway lines in the United Kingdom, part of the British railway system. ... “Glaswegian” redirects here. ... The term Carstairs collectively describes two villages located in the adminstrative region of South Lanarkshire in southern Scotland. ... HSBC Rail is one of the three major ROSCOs (Rolling Stock Companies) in the United Kingdom. ... GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) is a British train operating company (TOC) owned by Sea Containers Ltd. ...

The InterCity 225 has a theoretical top service speed of 140 mph (225 km/h); during a test run on Stoke Bank between Peterborough and Grantham an Intercity 225 reached 162.6 mph (261.7 km/h). However, except on the Channel Tunnel Rail Link which is equipped with cab signalling, British signalling does not normally allow trains to exceed 200 km/h, due to the impracticality of observing lineside signals at high speed. The Advanced Passenger Train of the early 1980s used a new hydrokinetic braking system to allow it to brake from 155 mph (250 km/h) within existing signalling distances. It is believed that the InterCity 225 project was originally to be called APT-U, but this name was dropped after the failure of the previous APT-P trains and to avoid the negative publicity related to the APT. Peterborough is a cathedral city and unitary authority in the East of England, with an estimated population of 161,000 as of 2006. ... Grantham is a medium sized market town in Lincolnshire, England with about 35,000 inhabitants (40,000 including Great Gonerby), situated on the River Witham. ... CTRL redirects here. ... Cab signalling is any communication system used by modern trains to send track status information to the train cab. ... The UK railway signalling system used across the majority of the United Kingdom railway network uses colour lights to tell the driver the status of the section of track ahead. ... The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was an unsuccesful prototype tilting train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s. ...

Between late 2003 and April 2006 GNER and Bombardier Transportation undertook a complete rebuilding and refurbishment programme for the Mark 4 coaches, called Project Mallard. See British Rail Mark 4 for more details. GNER White Rose train at Kings Cross railway station Great North Eastern Railways (GNER) is a British train operating company (TOC) owned by Sea Containers Ltd. ... Bombardier Transportation is the rail equipment division of the Bombardier group. ... Interior of a refurbished first class coach. ...

See also

• High Speed Train
• GNER
• East Coast Main Line
• Class 91 electric locomotive
• Mark 4 coaches
• Driving Van Trailer
• InterCity (British Rail)

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External links

• Testing the Intercity 225
• A comparison of IC125 and IC225