Farewell to the InterCity 125?

[teuchter]

Here's the last ever HST to leave London on a regular service (20.02 to Leeds), just before it set off from St Pancras yesterday evening.

A low key affair, not a large number of people had come to see it off and the staff weren't letting anyone on the platform who wasn't travelling so a small group watched it disappear from behind the buffer stops. A bit sad it didn't get a proper send-off but I gather quite a few people were out along the route to see it go by.

 

[cybershot]

Nice bbc article.

Intercity 125: Workers say farewell to British Rail icon

As one operator retires its fleets of InterCity 125s, tributes are paid to the railway workhorse.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[steveseagull]

I was on one the other week. I was waiting for a train from Tamworth and one rocked up. Fantastic beasts.

 

[T & P]

Presumably the IC 125 locos are compatible with a number of different makes and/or models of passenger cars? Or has there been only one type of passenger car certified to be pulled by an Intercity 125 power unit?

 

[teuchter]

They are only fully compatible with the HST version MK3 carriages they've always operated with. Anything else needs modification to electrics and stuff.

 

[Dogsauce]

Yep, HST stock is different voltage, although the prototype power car is different and can only operate with the loco hauled mk3 stock (which it did for a bit a couple of years ago until the NRM took the keys off the 125 group who’d restored and operated it).