Date: 03/05/2016

The High Speed Train, or Intercity 125, is celebrating its 40th year of operation. As part of the celebrations, six engines were on display in Bristol, and the very first HST was renamed Sir Kenneth Grange, after the man who designed it. Nearly 5,000 people turned up to take a look.

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125s: 40 years, 803 million miles

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The High Speed Train, or Intercity 125, is celebrating its 40th year of operation.

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A British Rail InterCity 125, about to leave Bristol Temple Meads station in 1985 with a service to London Paddington.
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