Launch of APT high-speed train

Title

Launch of APT high-speed train

Genre

News report; Interview

TX Date

7 Dec 1981

Year of production

1981

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Duration

00:02:29

Description

Report on the prototype high-speed APT train which has launched seven years late. Includes interviews on the London to Glasgow service with teenage train enthusiast Stuart Hogg; stewardess Marie Docherty; British Rail’s chief passenger officer Peter Keane; the train’s drivers, Robert Harper and Wolsley(?) Gilmore(?). Male reporter not identified.

Contributors

Stuart Hogg; Marie Docherty; Peter Keane; Robert Harper; Wolsley(?) Gilmore(?)

Keywords

London; Scotland; Public transport; Railway transport; England; Trains; Glasgow; Euston

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