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	Advanced Passenger Train - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was an unsuccesful prototype tilting train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s.
		The APT was often jokingly referred to by passengers as the 'Accident Prone Train' because of this.
		Italian Pendolino systems incorporating original APT technology have since been sold internationally to various rail networks, including the British Class 390 Pendolino introduced on the West Coast Main Line from late 2003 onwards, culminating in September 2004 with the introduction of a full passenger timetable, with tilting enabled from Manchester and Birmingham to London Euston.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Advanced_Passenger_Train (1327 words)

	Advanced Passenger Train: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Advanced Passenger Train
		The Advanced Passenger Train, or APT as it was commonly known, was an unsuccessful tilting train developed by British Rail during the 1970s and early 1980s.
		The train was launched prematurely by British Rail in 1981 in a blaze of publicity, before the technical problems on the train had been fully solved, and predictably it was a PR disaster, as it kept breaking down.
		The APT was ridiculed by the press, and for largely political reasons was withdrawn from service in 1984.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ad/Advanced-Passenger-Train.html (196 words)

	Advanced Passenger Train -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Advanced Passenger Train, (APT) was an unsuccessful (additional info and facts about tilting train) tilting train developed by (additional info and facts about British Rail) British Rail during the (The decade from 1970 to 1979) 1970s and early (The decade from 1980 to 1989) 1980s.
		Two of the trains were scrapped, while the third was stored in a siding behind Crewe Works; it is now on display at (additional info and facts about The Railway Age) The Railway Age, (additional info and facts about Crewe) Crewe.
		In stark contrast to the APT, (A republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe) France's high speed train, the (additional info and facts about TGV) TGV, developed around the same time, has been a great success.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/ad/advanced_passenger_train.htm (779 words)

	Fatal train wreck of 1901
		The train made the run to Zurich in the usual time, and with no evident indication that everything about the locomotive was not in proper condition, stopping at Zurich only a minute to discharge several passengers and take aboard several others, among whom were Mrs.
		The train started south, before it had passed around the slight curve through the gravel pit, and before the conductor had collected the tickets from the Zurich passengers, engine 3,073 left the rails, turned northward to wreck itself and crushed the life out of many of the passengers.
		Meanwhile the passenger coaches came sliding along and as the locomotive fell, the smoke stack and the sand box were torn away and the safety valve over the steam dome snapped off.
	www.cgazette.com /towns/Newark/history/901821812625.htm (1415 words)

	The Advanced Passenger Train
		This was an unusual period, because the fastest train in the UK was a diesel.
		The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) was a project in the late 70s to early 80s for a British high speed train like on the continent.
		This was a full sized proper train with passenger accommodation and actually served the London-Glasgow line for a period, although unreliability hampered its operation, and because of braking problems it had to be withdrawn.
	www.o-keating.com /hsr/apt.htm (572 words)

	The Advanced Passenger Train driver's test (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The IAM offers advanced training and a stiff test on all sorts of vehicles from two-wheelers up to commercial vehicles, but it comes as a bit of a shock to see what can be involved in testing drivers for the latest of what may be described as multi-multi-seat vehicles.
		The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) is a monster so removed from the normal run of trains, and its driver's test so different from the normal train driver's test, that it truly qualifies as an advanced test of railcraft.
		The idea was to take a train to ever higher speeds along conventional track by means of an active suspension system which even tilted the coaches as they went round the bends.
	www.peterharris.org.uk /roadsafety/apt.htm (881 words)

	The Myth of Passenger Train Profitability
		With only one exception, all of them want to see passenger trains run, and all of them embrace the idea that it is the responsibility of the federal government to provide the leadership and the financial support for a strong and growing passenger-train system in our nation.
		Passenger trains have not enjoyed a favorable economic or political environment in this country since the 19th century.
		In fact, all forms of intercity commercial passenger transportation are money-losers-if you calculate all of their costs in the same way we calculate the costs of passenger trains.
	www.trainweb.org /moksrail/advocacy/resources/essays/coston.htm (4977 words)

	Passenger train catches fire in Egypt, kills 373 - Thursday Feb. 21, 2002 - The Arizona Daily Wildcat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Said Fuad Amin, a 22-year-old construction worker, jumped from the burning train and was being treated for a broken hand and a suspected concussion in Ayyat.
		Many of the passengers were going to their home villages for Eid al-Adha, or the "Feast of the Sacrifice," a four-day holiday that starts tomorrow.
		Yesterday's fire was the deadliest train accident in years in a country where such tragedies are common.
	wildcat.arizona.edu /papers/95/105/05_3.html (1225 words)

	LOCOMOTIVE ENGINE Running and Management - RUNNING A FAST PASSENGER TRAIN.
		Water for steam-making is collected, as the train runs along, from troughs placed in the middle of the track; a system of absolute block signals, controlled by vigilant train-dispatchers, provides a clear line ; and stops are made only for the purpose of changing the locomotives at the end of divisions.
		The lines over which the train runs traverse a multitude of cities and towns, most of them having the streets crossing the track on the level; and a great many other railroads are crossed at grade.
		As he moves round the engine, his trained eye detects the smallest defect; and, as he examines every cup and, reservoir, the touch in time that prevents delay is given wherever needed.
	www.catskillarchive.com /rrextra/chapt08.Html (2466 words)

	The APT
		The Advanced Passenger Train (APT) project was given the go-ahead in 1969, the year I joined BR Research at Derby.
		In those four years the train achieved a new British railway speed record of 152.3mph and a record average speed for the journey from St. Pancras to Leicester of 101.6mph.
		As a member of the BR research team responsible for measuring the effect of high-speed trains on the overhead power collection system, I was usually trackside during APT tests, but I grabbed the chance of a ride on one of the test runs.
	www.springhill.f9.co.uk /apt.htm (1233 words)

	The Advanced Passenger Train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Advanced Passenger Train is frequently quoted as one of the Great British Non-Starters of our time.
		The two power cars were formed in the middle of the train because, at the time they were designed, pantograph technology wasn't up to having two pans at opposite ends of the train both working at the 150mph envisaged for the train.
		By the time they reached passenger service one half of each train had been reduced to just driving trailer plus power car because it wasn't economical to provide two full sets of staff - there was no access between the two halves except via a cramped, noisy walkway through the guts of the power cars.
	www.leverton.org /apt.html (872 words)

	Tilting Trains
		In fact the force needed would be enough so that all passengers on the train couldn't move and would be stuck to the sides of the train.
		Its all down to the forces a passenger feels, if a passenger feels a lot of strong forces then he or she is going to be nervous, and may avoid travelling on the train, or just choose a slow train.
		This means as far as the passenger is concerned he or she is just being pulled into his or her seat, and he or she is used to that so no discomfort is felt.
	www.o-keating.com /hsr/tilt.htm (2032 words)

	BBC - North Yorkshire Travel -Tilting train - passenger comments
		During the later months of 1984, APT was put in to regular service on the Glasgow-London line as an unadvertised relief.
		The only way of making a day trip from London was by taking an early morning train to Crewe, and changing there for Preston, arriving in time to catch the up APT back to Euston.
		The train was usually almost empty, and many of the passengers were BR staff and engineers who had worked on the APT project.
	www.bbc.co.uk /northyorkshire/travel/story/tilting_train/comments.shtml (703 words)

	Star - Passenger train sets out on first journey through vast outback
		The first passenger train to travel from the southern Australian city of Adelaide to the northern port of Darwin set off yesterday, marking a new era in travel through the vast outback.
		The train - named The Ghan in honour of Afghan camel drivers who helped build the first stretches of the line in the 19th century - features 43 carriages hauled by two locomotives, making it Australia's longest ever passenger train at 1 069m.
		The inaugural passenger service follows the arrival in Darwin of the first freight train to use the new Adelaide-Darwin line on January 17.
	www.buzztracker.org /2004/02/02/cache/50313.html (591 words)

	Blast Derails Passenger Train in North Caucasus - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Regional authorities say two explosive devices planted under the tracks went off while a passenger train from Moscow to the regional capital Vladikavkaz was passing — one under the second car, one under the fourth.
		Ten of the eighteen carriages were derailed by the blast, but as the train was moving relatively slowly, none of the cars capsized or caught fire.
		Meanwhile in neighboring Chechnya, a passenger train left the capital of Grozny for Moscow on Sunday for the first time since war began in the republic in 1999.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2004/05/31/trainblast.shtml (514 words)

	Airliners.net Non Aviation: Passenger Train Across The Andes
		The crossing of the frontier is, however, made audible by the clanging of the bell which the train passes in the middle of the tunnel.
		Considering the steepness of the descent the traveling is remarkably fast, with a train of 150 tons weight the electric locomotives, using the rack, are able ever is to mount the 1 in l2ï¿½ gradient at 9ï¿½ miles an hour.
		Passenger services are re-opening (The Patagonian to Bariloche, The Litoral to the northeast and Iguazu, the express to Cordoba, Buenos Aires-Rosario, the Northern star to Tucuman, the Atlantic Coast to Mar del Plata etc).
	www.airliners.net /discussions/non_aviation/read.main/868785 (4366 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Tilting train breaks speed record
		British Rail originally attempted to launch a tilting train under the title of Advanced Passenger Train, in the 1980s.
		"Passengers have had to put up with a horrible 30 or 40 years but today is the beginning of a new rail revolution.
		But the number of services from London to Manchester is set to double and tilting trains will eventually be introduced along routes to Liverpool and Glasgow.
	news.bbc.co.uk /go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/uk/3671680.stm (684 words)

	Advanced Passenger Transport Vehicles - ATTB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Advanced Technology Transit Bus (ATTB) is an advanced all composite transit bus primarily for the US market designed and engineered by Northrop Grumman Corporation (Northrop) in Los Angeles, California under a Federal Contract which ended in 1999.
		The original design had a CNG power train which does not meet the target 2010 US Metropolitan Transit Authorities expectations for emissions and therefore the ATTB concept is now under design and engineering review.
		The Advanced Passenger Transport website wishes to thank Northrop Grumman and the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transit Authority for giving their approval for the inclusion of the photographs in this document.
	www.advancedpassengervehicles.com /attb.html (162 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Tilting train sets west coast record
		The trains, known as Pendolino (Italian for "she that leans"), tilt around curves on the line to allow higher speeds, and when passenger services begin next week they will cover the 184 miles along the West Coast mainline in a little over two hours.
		The first train, the "City of London", left Euston at 11.42am yesterday and slid into Manchester Piccadilly at 1.36pm, breaking the record set in December 2002 by a comfortable 11 minutes.
		British Rail had originally attempted to launch a tilting train, the Advanced Passenger Train, in 1981 but financial problems and an embarrassing breakdown on a trip for journalists eventually led to it being scrapped.
	www.guardian.co.uk /uk_news/story/0,3604,1309062,00.html (518 words)

	The Advanced Passenger Train - Norman Fowler expresses support (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		SINGING round a left-hand curve with the speedometer registering 120 mph goes the Advanced Passenger Train.
		To the driver up front and his passenger, Transport Minister Norman Fowler, the whole countryside appears to lean startlingly as the train's unique automatic tilt mechanism maintains the train's stability.
		Digital read-out to the left of the speedomoeter teslls the driver the maximum permitted speed for the particular stretch of track over which he is travelling.
	www.leverton.org /apt/ministerincab.html (214 words)

	IngentaConnect Study on Passenger Train Vehicle Fires (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The fire aspects of passenger train vehicles for two of the railway lines (labelled as A and B) in Hong Kong are discussed.
		Train compartments of railway line A are of enclosed construction whereas vehicles in railway line B are opened to each other.
		Simulations with the fire model ASET were performed in train vehicles for railway line A to study the probable smoke temperature and smoke layer interface height for different fires.
	api.ingentaconnect.com /content/pep/jrr/1997/00000211/00000002/art00002 (248 words)

	BBC News \| Middle East \| Bomb attack on passenger train in Algeria
		Security officials in Algeria say there has been a bomb attack on a passenger train in the north of the country.
		A statement from the security services said the home-made bomb exploded while the train was travelling in the Ain Defla region, 130km (81 miles) south-west of the capital, Algiers.
		The train bombing was the latest in a spate of similar attacks on passengers trains and buses in Algeria in the past five years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/middle_east/newsid_110000/110845.stm (197 words)

	Walker Trains APT Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Advanced Passenger Train in 1980 was British Rail's latest step forward in rapid Inter-City travel and Hornby were right up with them.
		The articulated coaches and long wheel base bogies were all accurately modelled by Hornby and the diecast bogies on the power car ensure optimum performance from the Ringfield motor powered from the track.
		The sleek Advanced Passenger Train set was designed for the really up to date modern image modellers - both young and not-so-young.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /andrew.walker6/trains/apt.htm (164 words)

	Speed Train - passenger train (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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	www.speedtrain.org /passenger_train-1.html (462 words)

	Footplate Days and Ways (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Most preserved railways in the UK still operate steam engines, and special charter trains are often seen running over the main lines around the country.
		A passenger train of 6-8 coaches, fully vacuum brake fitted, is used on the Stage 4 course.
		Techniques such as starting on an incline and stopping the train when the emergency 'communications cord' is pulled are covered.
	www.webtech.co.uk /fplate/fplate.htm (386 words)

	Materials accord targets passenger train interiors: News from GE Plastics
		GE Advanced Materials has signed a joint development agreement with China Railway Long Dragon New Composite Materials to develop components for passenger train interiors.
		GE Advanced Materials has signed a joint development agreement with China Railway Long Dragon New composite materials to codevelop high-strength, flame-retardant (FR) components for passenger train interiors based on new Azdel Rail-Lite composite.
		The Chinese company is the biggest original equipment supplier for all new passenger rail car interiors being developed to support China in refurbishing interior trim components used on its national railway system in advance of the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
	www.engineeringtalk.com /news/gad/gad121.html (424 words)

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