Discover the fascinating rise and fall of Britain’s Advanced Passenger Train (APT), a groundbreaking high-speed train designed to tilt into curves like a motorcycle, promising smooth, fast rides ...

It's 30 years since the Advanced Passenger Train carried its last passengers. In its short life it attracted scorn and mockery, but did the APT actually revolutionise the world of travel? Once ...

Think of tilting trains and most people remember the ill-fated Advanced Passenger Train. Believe it or not, it is now 20 years since the APT was scrapped. Passengers using it complained of feeling ...

A TILTING train ran in Britain for the first time in 20 years yesterday, offering the prospect of a narrowing of the rail speed gap between domestic services and those on the Continent. The first ...

British Rail was also a pioneer of tilt with its Advanced Passenger Train (APT), infamously scrapped in the mid-1980s after many years of costly development. Since BR abandoned tilt, the technology ...

Until Thursday, the only tilting train to carry passengers was the British-built Advanced Passenger Train (APT-P), a prototype which ran between Euston and Glasgow from 1982-1983.

In the early-2000s, transport manufacturer Bombardier developed an experimental high-speed passenger train concept that promised to bring European-style rail services to Canada and the US. Here ...

All involved were hoping today's outing would prove happier than a disastrous press launch for British Rail's tilting train, the Advanced Passenger Train, in the early 1980s. With many journalists ...

It's 30 years since the Advanced Passenger Train carried its last passengers. In its short life it attracted scorn and mockery, but did the APT actually revolutionise the world of travel? Once ...