So, the APT was designed to tilt as it went into curved track sections, rather like a motorbike on a winding road, allowing it to go up to 40% quicker than non-tilting trains. It also included ...

The vehicles are now being used all over Europe and Asia. So why did Britain give up the groundbreaking APT? Chris Moss is a writer, editor and hotel expert on the UK, Spain and Latin America. He has ...

It was the train-spotters' answer to Concorde, but for one key difference - the revolutionary tilting APT was scrapped shortly after its launch, 20 years ago on Friday, writes BBC News Online's ...

THE Advanced Passenger Train (APT) will be tilted for the first time since the 1990s during a special event at the Crewe Heritage Centre this month. One of the two extant APT units has stood in ...

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 upon a ...