Timeshift (TV Series)
The Nation's Railway: The Golden Age of British Rail (2015)
Peter Swift: Self - BR Engineering, 1962-1994
Quotes
-
[talking about why the Advanced Passenger Train project was abandoned and the trains scrapped]
Peter Swift : So much of the equipment was totally new, and my view would be that there were too many new ideas in one train.
Alan Marshall : The Advanced Passenger Train never had a chance because it never got the support it really deserved, particularly from the civil servants and politicians, maybe because none of them had any real long-term belief in the future of the railways.
-
[talking about the HST 125]
Peter Swift : If someone had told me in 1975 that this train that you're working on will still be in front-line service in 40 years' time, I'd have said "Pull the other one". But it is!
