Kestrel ,APT-E, Prototype HST video

[33011]

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9rBcSZb3bE

[ACE]

Great link, shame 'Kestrel' didn't get to show it's true worth, and that it wasn't preserved in the end, I did buy the Heljan Model though of it!

[wyvern]

Great link, shame [the APT]' didn't get to show it's true worth,

Good to see some of my old mates though - I wonder what's happened to them over the years.

[Barryat11]

I grew up at Stanton on the Wolds on the disused Nottm to Melton Mowbray railway. I have seen the APT-E on that line many years ago, from the top of Stanton Tunnel entrance

[Master Cutler]

Great piece of film, and some memorable moments in rail history.
Shame about Kestrel though, didn't it end up getting exported to Russia.

[62440]

Yep, good piece about it here: link http://www.parovoz.com/newgallery/pg...=235774&LNG=EN and if you put KESTREL in the search facility at the top of the page you'll find some more about it on this forum.

Regards, 62440.

[colchesterken]

Makes you want to cry ,if only they had got it back to UK and restored it

[Madcaravanner]

Originally Posted by Master Cutler

Great piece of film, and some memorable moments in rail history.
Shame about Kestrel though, didn't it end up getting exported to Russia.

And scrapped they only wanted the technology for their new turbine loco's

[Master Cutler]

Originally Posted by 62440

Yep, good piece about it here: link http://www.parovoz.com/newgallery/pg...=235774&LNG=EN and if you put KESTREL in the search facility at the top of the page you'll find some more about it on this forum.

Regards, 62440.

Originally Posted by colchesterken

Makes you want to cry ,if only they had got it back to UK and restored it

Originally Posted by Madcaravanner

And scrapped they only wanted the technology for their new turbine loco's

So often though, the baby is thrown out with the bathwater.
Or so it seems.