Prototype Advanced Passenger Train (APT-P)

This website aims to provide some of the history behind the British Rail tilting train project.

A Key Publishing Limited bookazine is out now, containing an article on the APT-E.

TESTING TESTING UNDERSTANDING BRITAIN'S TEST TRAINS.

Testing, Testing traces the development of British Rail Research, and Mechanical and Electrical Engineering operations based at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby.

This 148-page special examines how research played a major role in the development of our railways by studying the locomotives and trains used by the division in the BR era and to the present day.

Introduction

A brief introduction to the Advanced Passenger Train.

Books and Films

A number of books, leaflets, postcards and films featuring the APT.

Memories

Memories of travel and working on APT.

Models

A selection of models of both APT-E and APT-P.

The Gallery

Share your photographs, videos and drawings & paintings of APT-P in 'The Gallery'.

APT Where Now ?

Where to see the surviving vehicles and simulated APTs.

See www.APT-E.org for information about the Experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT-E), including how to join the APT-E Conservation & Support Group at Locomotion the NRM at Shildon.

For regular visitors to the site, a list of recent updates is available.

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FOR THEIR DONATION OF THIS DOMAIN NAME & WEB SPACE