The History of HSTs on the Midland Region
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- Опубликовано: 12 май 2023
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Turning to our final look at the history of HSTs by region, we cast our eyes over the last of BR's regions to introduce these sets during late 1982 and early 1983, the Midland Region or Midland Mainline, a route that, throughout the 1970s, had been threatened with partial closure on numerous occasions, but following the arrival of the High Speed Train saw a massive improvement in journey times and efficiency that turned what was once Britain's backwater mainline into a vital commuter corridor rivaling both its East and West coast neighbours.
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References:
- 125Group (and their respective sources)
- Rail Revisited (and their respective sources)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)
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I've travelled on a class 180 three times and three times I arrived at my destination on a rescue train. RIP HSTs, you are sadly missed.
Good morning, currently 3:00am local time as this goes up, no other time I'd rather watch one of your videos.
Good video why use the term consist ,this is a american term !!!
Sadly all of the hsts are making way for the 180 dmus being brought from working on the east coast mainline
I personally preferred peaks on the Midland mainline. Hst's to an enthusiast were as dull as dishwater and glorified multiple units.
Ruairidh, why don't you join all four episodes together to form a roughly 1 hour documentary covering HSTs across all four regions / across the Great Britain? These videos are without doubt the best retrospectives of BR's signature chapter.
St Pancras is a station in London. St PancrEas is not! It’s more of a high status internal organ. 😊
I can’t believe the HSTs are no longer in commercial use. It feels like yesterday I was seeing them at York during my visit to the National Railway Museum.
Every Saturday i eagerly check to see if you’ve done a class 47 video and today we get a video on the only machine I love more! Winner, winner. 😁
The western region got the 125s first, initially London to Bristol in late 1976, later running to Wales and Cornwall.Then the ECML and Midland Mainline got 125s. The mileages of the Midland Mainline HSTs must be lower than the ECML HSTs going as far as Aberdeen and Inverness.
Thank you so much Ruairidh for yet another superb video. I have many fond memories of travelling on HSTs as a student at Loughborough in the 1980s.
Grew up watching these! Standing on the platform at Harborough waiting fo the impossibly loud engine screaming at each end as it pulled off.
The HST is my favourite, closely followed by Deltic, so this video ticked a lot of boxes, once again, thank you for your great content.
I remember getting one of those Project Rio services from Leicester to Manchester in August 2004. It was a bit surreal being on an HST whilst slowly winding through the dales on the Hope Valley line and the overhanging trees brushing past the train window at Dore West Junction.
thanks for the trip down memory lane. I was the box boy at Trent jn. when the inaugural Robin Hood pullman ran.
Thanks for another great documentary. Those trains have had a rather long life: I rode Intercity 125 trains during a visit to England in 1979 when they were still quite new. In 2007 I had a good look at the train services through Bedford so I find all of this content quite interesting.
Great video and narration with the history of the regions and nationalization eras...
Thank you for these amazing videos. This has become my favourite channel on RUclips.
Haven’t even started watching yet but I’ll say this now as I know it will be relevant by the end “quality video as always mate”
Great video. Always loved the midland mainline HSTs. They are sadly missed 😔