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British Transport Films 1969 Colour
British Transport Films 1970 Colour 15 Min
10th Rail Report.
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British Transport Films 1972 Colour 9 Min
British Rail's experimental Advanced Passenger train powered by gas turbines and with a host of revolutionary ideas such as a tilting system to stabilise the train at speed on sharp curves and hydrokinetic braking.
British Transport Films 1972 Colour 18 Min
12th Rail Report - Some developments, both technical and commercial on British Rail.
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British Transport Films 1975 Colour 20 Min
An account of the development of British Rail's experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT-E) The film explains in simple terms some of the many novel design features of the APT, including the tilt mechanism and the hydro-kinetic brake, and shows the train in action during trials.
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British Transport Films 1977 Colour 20 Min
For the new generation of Advanced Passenger Trains, a new system for advising drivers of APT speed limits has been devised known as C-APT… Control Advanced Passenger Trains, by which the line-speed along with the route is displayed - in miles per hour - inside the driver's cab.
British Transport Films 1978 Colour 6 Min
This film was aimed at American audiences, explaining the benefits of rail travel in Britain.
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British Transport Films 1979 Colour 27 Min
In a world growing ever shorter of energy, railways are well suited to satisfy the world's future transport needs. This is the story of the new railways in Japan, Britain, Germany, France, Poland and Italy.
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British Transport Films 1979 Colour 11 Min
This film begins with a brief glimpse of an APT-P undergoing a brake application test.
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BBC2 Broadcast 26 May 1980
On the weekend of 24th, 25th and 26th of May 1980, a great cavalcade of railway locomotives and rolling stock assembled at Rainhill, near Liverpool to celebrate the 150th Birthday of the opening of the Liverpool & Manchester railway.
British Transport Films 1980 Colour 20 Min
13th Rail Report.
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British Transport Films 1982 Colour 14 Min
TV personality, Peter Purves, takes a trip on the prototype Advanced Passenger Train. En route he meets some of those responsible for its development and testing.
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BBC2 Broadcast 7 December 1981
British Rail have pinned their hopes on the Advanced Passenger Train. It's an excellent design with a great deal of new technology, from the hydraulic mechanism that tilts the coaches to new braking and suspension systems. Yet from the start the project has been hampered by delays, disputes and breakdowns. A small and youthful team of commissioning engineers was given the task of making the train work. Horizon joined them for a crucial week as the engineers raced against time to solve the train's problems by today, 7 December, when – if all goes well – the train will start the first 125 mph passenger service from London to Glasgow.
Broadcast 14 December 1982
While America's passenger-train service deteriorates, trains in Japan and Europe are speeding ahead at over 150 miles per hour. NOVA reports that the super-fast trains are finally coming to America.
CHANNEL 4 Broadcast 7 April 1983
The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was set to the be the train of the future, ferrying passengers across the country at speeds of over 160 miles per hour, however due to technical setbacks – the train of the future has stalled before it has even started.
OPEN UNIVERSITY February 1986
T362 - Innovation and Design
The programme consists of a journey on the one remaining prototype APT during which key people involved in the APT and its successor, the IC225, discuss the history of both projects. The journey is interwoven with film taken at the Railway Technical Centre at Derby and at the British Railways Board offices in London and with interviews with those involved in both the R&D and business planning aspects of the APT and IC225 projects. Those interviewed include Dr Alan Wickens, who helped propose the initial APT concept, Dr David Boocock and John Mitchell, who were responsible for developing the APT-P, and Cyril Bleasdale and David Rollin, who were responsible for specifying the IC225.
CHANNEL 4 Broadcast February 1988
This documentary follows the development of APTs successor, the Electra Class 91 Locomotive, from the concept, design and manufacture stages up to the rollout of the first complete locomotive at Crewe in 1988.
BBC1 Broadcast 19 May 1988
Peter Macann climbs aboard 'Pendolino', the Italian tilting train on one of its first test runs between Milan and Rome, simpler than Britain's unsuccessful tilting train, the APT, Pendolino can travel at high speeds on existing track, and looks like being a runaway success.
BBC1 Broadcast 6 March 1992
BBC1 Broadcast 6 August 1997
In 1969, Tomorrow's World revealed plans for a new concept in rail transport - the tilting train - so called because, travelling at high speed, it tilted as it went round corners. Over a decade later, it was finally introduced as the jewel in British Rail's crown, but within days of its launch, disaster struck. A succession of problems with the new technology led to delays and cancellations of the service, and soon the tilting train was thrown on the scrap heap. So why are two new rail companies in Britain planning on bringing the tilting train back? Howard Stableford investigates the 'Return of the Tilting Train'.
BBC2 Broadcast 27 February 1997
Sir Peter Parker was running British Rail during its ill-fated experiment with the Advanced Passenger Train. It was not his fault that the famous tilting mechanism left passengers feeling queasy or that this brilliant piece of high technology broke down on its inaugural run. But it was his decision to launch the APT, when clearly it was not ready. Today it lies in a siding hired out for children's parties.
BBC Scotland Broadcast 11 March 1998
Produced to mark 1998 as the 150th anniversary of the first direct train service between Scotland and London. 'The Future' section included interviews with one of the first APT-P drivers and also a passenger, before looking at Virgin's proposed new tilting trains for the WCML.
Discovery Channel 1999
Feature on the English pop music producer Peter Alan Waterman.
BBC1 Broadcast 29 November 1999
As part of 'BBC Rail Week' Peter Snow takes a ride on an Italian tilting train and talks to Slaven Kovacevic of Fiat, who claims that the tilting train was an Italian invention.
BBC1 Broadcast 22 November 2000
Liz Barker reported on the World's first mechanically activated tilting train, the Advanced Passenger Train, the APT-E. The E stands for experimental. Sadly it isn't on show to the general public as it's currently being restored by volunteers at the National Railway Museum at York.
The new tilting trains are being built at two sites in the UK - Wakefield and Birmingham. Liz visited the factory in Wakefield where they are building a total of seventy eight new trains.
The first tilting trains are expected to be in service by the end of 2001. When the trains are fully operational, journey times on both the West Coast Main Line from London to Glasgow and some Cross Country routes, that's Aberdeen to Penzance, will be shorter by up to twenty five per cent.
BBC2 MIDLANDS Broadcast 18 October 2001
Sir Richard Branson is confident his new fleet of tilting trains will tip the balance in favour of rail travel. He's determined to succeed where British Rail's Advanced Passenger Train failed so spectacularly in the eighties. Sir Richard says "To deliver a rail system to the UK that works has been a dream and a pledge that we've made. Finally we're about to deliver everything we've promised."
Midlands Report follows the birth of Branson's new fleet and watches as he prepares to introduce it to the West Coast main line.
The new trains promise to drastically reduced journey times between the Midlands and London.
The programme follows the design and manufacturing of the new trains including accompanying Sir Richard on fact finding trip to Italy, one of nine countries in Europe where tilting trains are well established. Branson's Baby also looks back at the history of the ill-fated Advanced Passenger Train. Former engineers express views on the failed project which most people admit was years ahead of its time. APT Chief Engineer Alan Wickens says "It was a very exciting project. Morale was very high and there was the belief that what we were doing was very important." Many members of the original team still say it was the best thing they ever worked on.
CHANNEL 4 Broadcast 1 December 2001
Where did Britain’s railways go wrong? Why has the country that gave trains to the world been so bad at running them safely and efficiently? Last autumn the Hatfield crash pushed the system into full-scale crisis; this autumn, Transport Minister Stephen Byers has pulled the plug on Railtrack.
Presented by Ian Hargreaves - former Editor of the New Statesman and the Independent - A Secret History of Rail asks why three generations of politicians have failed to create the conditions for a thriving railway.
Nationalisation, 1970s social democracy, and privatisation have all failed. What chance is there of Blair's government doing any better? Featuring candid interviews with key figures including Sir Bob Reid, Sir Peter Parker, Sir Alastair Morton, Sir Bob Horton, Gerald Corbett and Norman Lamont.
Discovery Home & Leisure
Kit Spackman and Alan Wickens tell the story of the Experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT-E), explaining why it is now an exhibit at the National Railway Museum in York.
Discovery Home & Leisure
Mark Found goes 'Trainspotting' at Crewe to discover, from Kit Spackman, why the Advanced Passenger Train was so good, and why it disappeared so suddenly.
CHANNEL FIVE Broadcast 2 February 2004
This new technology series with attitude focuses on people with magnificent obsessions of speed, movement and machines. From the brute force of high speed trains and the sheer elegance of Maglev transport systems, to the ferocious battle to build the ultimate superplane this series explores where technology and creativity are leading in the quest for the ultimate machine.
CHANNEL 4 - Programme 4 Broadcast 17 October 2004
This programme looks at the railways post-WW2, and how they faced up to the need to modernise the countries network after the war. It examines the changes made by the notorious Beeching plan, and the end of the age of steam. Peter Alan Waterman looks at the work done by BR, at the success of their Intercity network, and at the ill-fated APT service. The series closes with a look at how the countries railways have coped with privatisation, and at what the future holds for the British rail network with the advent of trains such as the Eurostar and Pendolino.
BBC1 Broadcast 8 November 2004
A celebration of all those ideas that started out with good intentions but ended by blowing up in the faces of all concerned.
Discovery Channel 2006
Chris Barrie explores some of his favourite fast trains, starting with the elegant steam engine City of Truro, which is credited with being the first train to break the 100mph barrier. He takes a fresh look at modern railway giants such as the Intercity 125 and the French TGV, and finishes with a breathtaking ride on a Maglev test train in Germany.
CHANNEL FIVE Broadcast 27 June 2008
Documentary series looking at the untold stories of British scientific innovations. Peter Snow traces the history of the UK's experimental tilting trains of the 1970s and 80s. The Advanced Passenger Trains were intended to rival France's TGV and Japan's bullet train, but negative press and complaints about motion sickness helped scupper the project before it could get going.
BBC FOUR Broadcast 13 September 2012
In 1976 a new high-speed train, the Inter-City 125, helped save British Rail, an unfashionable nationalised industry suffering from a financial crisis, industrial relations problems and a poor public image. The train was launched with the help of a memorable advertising campaign, fronted by Jimmy Savile, which announced that the 1980s would be the 'age of the train'. BR had an energetic new boss, Sir Peter Parker, who was determined to revive the railways. The result was a typically British success story, full of surprises and setbacks, as this documentary shows.
BBC FOUR Broadcast 24 February 2015
Timeshift revisits Britain's railways during the era of nationalisation. For all its bad reputation today, the old British Rail boldly transformed a decayed, war-torn Victorian transport network into a system fit for the 20th century. With an eye firmly on the future, steam made way for diesel and electric, new modern stations like Euston were built, and Britain's first high-speed trains introduced.
Made with unique access to the British Transport Films archive, this is a warm corrective to the myth of the bad old days of rail, but even it can't hide from the horror that was a British Rail sandwich.
BBC1 Broadcast 19 July 2016
Was the APT an expensive white elephant, or the future of public transport? Nick Hewer investigates…
Channel 5 Broadcast 27 February 2017
Episode 3 The series concludes by examining the devastating impact of the Beeching report, which led to half of all stations and nearly a third of lines in Britain closing and at the reinvention of the railways for the modern age.
Channel 5 Broadcast 15 May 2018 and 22 May 2018
Programme 1 looks at the birth of the 125 project and the APT, examining the design of both and the state of BR in the sixties and early seventies.
Programme 2 picks up in the mid seventies with BR backing two horses - the APT and the 125. The 125 becomes a runaway success but the APT project could still steal the intercity crown. We look at the catering make over and the inaugural run of the APT from Glasgow to London. We also look at the legacy of both designs.
YESTERDAY Broadcast 1 November 2021
Documentary series going behind the scenes at the famous model-making company to reveal how their dedicated team of designers strive to shrink a new generation of mighty machines.
Episode 4 Advanced Passenger Train: Head of development, Simon Kohler, has a challenge on his hands to push Hornby's replica of the West Coast Main Line train, the APT to top speed. The 155-mph tilting train was scrapped after only a few years of service, but Hornby hope the 80s icon will prove popular. Researcher James, takes a visit to the last surviving APT-P to check the colour of the model matches the train and to see its legendary tilt.
BBC2 Broadcast 5 January 1998
The series examines the issues surrounding major international incidents, combining dramatic reconstructions and commentary from experts and witnesses to ask if these were preventable accidents or catastrophes waiting to happen. All raise issues of accountability and regulation, and reflect on how major institutions implement procedures for managing risk.
The Channel Tunnel Fire
SKY CINEMA Broadcast 18 December 2021
A festive fantasy following 1980s nightclub manager Tony Towers journey on a magical train that harbours a different stage of his life in each of its carriages.
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