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Inter City Express trains: the 21st Century Deltic?

Stuart Porter, Kettering NN15
20 March 2015
 

Rail minister Claire Perry’s speech at the arrival in Southampton of the prototype new Inter City Express train last week challenged the audience to find a better name for it, one which “captures the excitement and romance” of fast rail travel.

Half of the new trains are to run where streamlined steam trains (known as ‘Streaks’) captured the world speed record. That leads to names such as ‘Streakers’ (not very romantic and perhaps too reminiscent of...

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