Modern Railways  |  Britain's Railways in the 1980s
Ever since the early 1960s Britain’s railways had been in a period of decline. Despite ending the use of steam traction, passenger numbers and freight traffic continued to fall, the track and facilities had been severely rationalised, and the motive power fleet reduced to a small number of standard types.
The first seeds of a reversal of fortunes came in 1976 with the introduction of the High Speed Train while the Advanced Passenger Train was under development. For freight, the way forward was seen as via both faster and heavier trains for which a new class of more powerful diesel locomotives was required. But much greater change was on the way, perhaps not in the direction expected at the beginning of 1980.
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