1,250 mph London to Peterborough supersonic train ride
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- čas přidán 10. 03. 2016
- Inter-city 1250 (1982)
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Forget High Speed 2. This is high speed 1982, a fast-forward pelt from King's Cross to Peterborough in four minutes. Originally titled Inter-city 1250, this promo was one of the last films for the public produced by the film unit of British Rail.
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I’m just imagining how blistering hot the body of this train would be after three minutes at those speeds. No way anyone is reaching out a window to open a car door from the outside without losing the skin on their hand.
"...but the train was going so fast his hat blew off into a field, where a goat ate it for tea!"
@@Ramtamtama Gordon
Keep in mind it’s time lapse the actual speed is 120 mph😂 but 1250 mph Mach 1.87 would kill you rip your arm of 3 tons per square inch load on the outer surface insane
Thus completely negating the need for Central Door Locking. Those folk at BR knew what they were doing... 🙃
1250 mph 😂😂😂😂 Mach 1.7 the train would be on fire from the extreme load pressure 😂
yep the driver hits the breaks coming into the platform everyone goes arse over tit and sent crashing into the next coach .
Arse over tit😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Haven't heard that saying in years lmao
R/ihadastroke
@@theaustraliantrainspotter ?
Honestly at that speed they'd probably more likely be chunky style salsa if he hit the brakes that fast.
You'd still want to be faster than this going through shit-holes like Stevenage.
You legend 😂
@Confused Carrot ah yes I see you’re also a man of culture!
@Confused Carrot the good people of stevenage have no incentive to use their cycle lanes, their roads are just too acceptable...
You must maintain a minimum speed of 1500mph to avoid your wheels beimg stolen
I mean..
AHEM (Luton)
10/10 realism. Train would definitely not fly off the rails
even the clouds go faster when this train is nearby
Isnt s0exu9 too nah
wheels totally dont overheat and explode
@@hhhharis622 that’s because of the supersonic shockwave
@@dangerouslytalented obviously
TGV: *Chuckles* I'm in danger.
LMAO
God its so true.
Ah yes, the Intercity 1250, train of my childhood. I have many (short, yes, but many) happy memories of this train.
hello gw
This is my favourite video in all youtube. I don't know why I keep coming back to this time and again. It gives me goosebumps. The railways are really one of the greatest achievements in modern human civilization. Connecting millions everyday.
@josh he is not saying this train in the video is real if he did he would probs be sarcastic he is talking of the invention by the british
Great film just shame that when u get shots of passengers you can see it going at normal speed
Could you help us change this ? We assume you are an expert ?
@@bertiewooster3326 that wouldn’t be difficult at all, it takes a clip mask over the window which you can overlay above the original video sped up and looped. That technology wasn’t available back when this was made but now it’s accessible to anyone. So yes, he can
@@WETiLAMBY Well I goes to the bottom of our garden I'm still getting use to 13amp sockets in our house.
you could also just let the real life people move really slowly so when they speed up the clip it looks like they’re doing it at normal speed
Brilliant take on the London to Brighton in 4 minutes film. They've even got the sounds right!
I have been looking for this for years too. My brother had it on a video he got from the Railway book club and I remember being fascinated by it as a child and watching it over and over. Although I never became a train spotter like my brother, I always loved the HST and was sorry to see it's demise on the GWR recently. I hope plenty end up in preservation.
x10 speed.
Jajajaa x24
@@remerodelvolga6598 Can you say that in English please I don't understand Spanish
@@narayanilakshmi4949 learn, pretty
@@remerodelvolga6598 kekekeke x24
No shit, Sherlock.
haters say this is sped up
Fair point
But it is really sped up I'm not lying I'm not a hater it was really sped up
@@HarryElliott_2007 didn't ask
once you notice when the cab view you can definitely see the clouds go faster than normal
@@lietuve2001 It was just a windy day
I love how the passengers are sitting there casually as if nothing is going past them quicker then they can see it
Been looking for this for years!! Made me a very happy Trance. Thank you, BFI!!
I never realised that the 125 was so quick, how come we need HS2 today when we could travel at these speeds 30 years ago? The clouds seemed a lot quicker in those days too ;-)
HS2 does like 186 mph or something same as HS1 just a waste of money if they had given Branson his 140mph capabilities for the Pendos we wouldn't have this issue
HS2 is there to increase capacity along the WCML route which is saturated and cannot cope with the projected increase in demand, it is no longer possible to increase capacity by tinkering with it. The only way to increase capacity is to build another rail line, and in doing so you might as well make it a modern high speed one. The express services can then be moved off the WCML onto HS2, which frees WCML capacity for more local stopping services to service the smaller population centres. The media have framed this as purely a speed issue but it isn't, that is merely a secondary benefit. The primary function of HS2 is to satisfy projected future rail demand along that route. I would say it is extremely unlikely the suppressing effect of the pandemic on transport is going to be permanent.
We've learned to take our time since then
When it comes to the railways, there is something - Made by BR - That will never *ever* be beaten. Not even by the French... 🚄🇫🇷❤🔥
...The „Open Return” time of a British Rail ham sandwich! 🥪🤢🚽😳🤣
This takes me back to the winter of 1980 when I rode this service multiple times. I used to catch the first train in the morning from Peterborough, I think 6am and come back on the late train in the evening.I still remember well the chimneys as you approach Peterborough.
Brain: put it on x2 speed
Me: no why
Brain: just do it
Now you made me do it
Did this them immediately saw this comment.
damn it
2500 mph
The fastest diesel train I've ever seen XD
reading through the comments, surprised nobody has mentioned how great that song was?
I did no such thing :D
That wasn't a song. That was the sound of the Intercity 1250's engine!
That's why trains can't go so fast any more. The world has lost all that 80s synth awesomeness!
Finally, someone making my day great
2:21 that baby is going to turn 40 next year
My god....
Love the start of it with the music coming into tune as you pull out the tunnels south of Finsbury Park, passing by Harringay, Hornsey, Alexandra Palace, and onwards through north London
It’s a wonderful train. Remember my first 125 from Didcot to Bath in 1978. So much better than the useless older trains.
Wow. That would certainly shave a good 45 minutes off
Yep, 125 is a powerful diesel engine
Bit of a shame to still be using them a half century later though :/
Those trains used to scream slowly past my primary school. Loudest diesel engines I’ve ever heard. Brilliant.
Paxman Valentas !
This is so 80's! .... love it. ''Journey time to Peterborough: 3 minutes'' lol.
The clouds in the sky seem to moving at supersonic speed in many of the shots. Gosh.
F. Angus nah just a windy ol day😂
Ah, the days when rail travel was affordable and easy...
Despite what people say, British Rail wasn't actually very good, that's why it shut down after all.
I used to use the WCML Euston to Coventry in the late 80s, it an endless tale of cancelled trains and delays on dirty trains that bounced around on the badly maintained track between the dirty grey stations. I could never have imagined we could have anything as good and frequent as the Pendalino train service we have today nor would the stations be so smart and have places I am happy to eat at, that I use now.
and fast!
You can thank privatisation for that. All problems stem from privatisation from rails to utilities.
The Sonic boom of this will break glasses and people's ears.
The sonic boom at ground level, and the noise of the wheels and the rails and the noise of the two engines producing the millions of horsepower required would be one of the loudest sounds ever.
They must have had some great inertial dampeners, too. Assuming the materials could hold up, the switch from track to track would be in the neighborhood of 1000 Gs. The train stayed on the track, and the passengers were never smooshed against the walls.
Intercity 125 living my dream! Supersonic trains for life!
I don’t think it was going that fast I think it was sped up but I don’t know if it was still supersonic
It was sped up like 10× faster than real time
if only.
Damn, some of these BFI videos are the bees' knees, so to speak. It reminds me of the time I used to live in the UK. Go BFI!
We could be Anywhere In Less Than 1 hour
I am literally getting motion sickness reading the comments and watching this at the same time.
It needs a CGI makeover to convert the views out of the windows into a spectrum shifted linear blur, while early 80s passengers squint at the impossibility of it all.
'Hello, and welcome to the Black Mesa transit system'
*host_framerate 0.1*
Where did you find this?? I remember seeing this as a kid, and loved it... I haven't seen it for over 30 years, but still remember the music so clearly!
Will i just made it 2,500mph by making the video 2x speed
The first time a timelapse was used.. And they thought they can trick us 😂
so London to Brighton in 4 min was not time lapse?
Didn't our country look good back in those days, pity they didn't keep it like that
If only British rail still ran it
I actually love sped up footage. Because the fps is so high, so the footage looked really smooth.
Ah, the days you could board a train without a) a booking b) a reserved seat c) only being allowed to travel on a specific train d) a mortgage to pay for a meal. Why is life so difficult and complicated now?
Government regulations.
This would derail the second it hits a normal turn
Ah, the joys of BR, before it was privatised
Imagine what bank would the rails have to have to be able to achieve such speeds
LOL. I took a Bristol to Edinburgh train once. 2 hours late arriving in Bristol, 4 hours late arriving in Edinburgh!
I like how in the future people will no longer be using their phones and going back to newspapers.
That one lady tied up on the tracks -
*_boom_*
Everyone riding this thing would be dead just from the air pressure entering tunnels.
And the curves???? LMAO
Hmmm? 🤔 Somethings not right. Super fast out of the engineers window, yet the view out of the passenger windows seems quite slow .
It's a time warp
@chris brady you can tell by the way he called the driver an "engineer"
@@thatSteveSmith it's just a jump to the left
Ahhhh! The days before Azuma, the worlds most inconvenient and uncomfortable train.
Glad to see you love it
Love the way people are working in the train, using pens and notepads rather than laptops!
Is this supposed to be an April fools joke? about the HST`s going ludicrously fast? Its brilliant!
Would probably need 4,000,000 horsepower.
Bro, that is faster than me when my mum call me to eat
Unless I don't like the food
As a visitor to Britain I remember that appalling entrance to King's Cross.
Yes, thankfully that eyesore is long gone now.
that eyesore is why WB used St Pancras to represent Kings Cross in Harry Potter
Fifty years later and the new Class 800 trains are doing just 200km/h (125mph) along this stretch. Whatever happened to *Progress* and so-called *Levelling Up?* 🚄🇬🇧😉
Mind you: This is reasonable proof that scrapping the Regional Eurostar project was a *BIG* mistake... 😐
BR: Dam our Trains are like the Slowest in the World
also BR: Lets just speed up the vid to make it faster
Why would they want a hot drink/meal if the journey only took 3 minutes! 😀
Notice how the shots from inside the train aren’t sped up? Only the forward facing ones and the ones from outside
Four minutes and thirty seconds. The time I'll never get back.
570mph Acela: I have met my match
Britain's answer to TGV! In France they have to SLOW DOWN the film - otherwise you wouldn't SEE the train!
Breaking the sound barrier went unnoticed by the passengers, the view outside just seemed to fly by!!! 😂😄😄😄😄🤪
If only tilting trains did this, you'd be there in no time!
The intercity 1250 much faster than your 125, 225 Intercity were getting there faster than you’ve ever seen!
This is real. London has some real dipetsonic trains. Thus is no joke. Have. Even to Peterb.on these fast trains.Amazing ride.
How fast did they go was it 125 mph the normal speed limit on the ECML
Saved by the bells at the end
it looks so fast. like so real. wow
Late seventies early eighties were awesome. Thatcher, Yuppies on this train, Miners Strike, The Falklands War, British Rail.
yes, I loved it!
Glad they produced it , even though back when there wearent a lot of people who cared about rail :)
Oh, love that music. BTW, most of the people on the train would be divorced, dithering or dead by now.
Wow, at that speed the poop and pee from flushing the toilet would cover many a sleeper and rail. Maybe trains in the UK no longer drop poop and pee onto the rails but some did until very recently.
Watching this makes me want the HSTs back on the East Coast mainline
This will be possible in the year 2000 for sure
Perfect Performance, George Fenton KPM
Imagine a train hitting Mach Speeds into a station
Image the shock wave as it goes through a tunnel
Steely Dan was ahead of its time: 90-minutes from NY to Paris....what a beautiful world it would be.....
This is definitely real 😂
great music!
Just a normal day
Ah yes the power of 2x video speed
Set the speed to 2x....
The IC125 was a strong comeback for the railways. Shame to see them go. Can anyone name the stations at the relevant points on the video time line?
Nobody would ever be in that much of a rush to get to Peterborough. Now if it were going the other way...
now introducing the intercity 12500. we dont care if it breaks all your bones, at least you arent in Peterborough anymore.
@@cipherrephicsamplename554 Having lived in Peterborough, it's a price I would have gladly paid!
The air pressure in the tunnels would momentarily slow the train
so **this** is what liam gallagher kept singing about all them years ago
once you notice when the cab view you can definitely see the clouds go faster than normal
85 plus miles. Trip takes nearly 2 hours today.
Wow. In the eighties it took only 4 minutes.
It takes 45 minutes today...don't know where you got 2 hours from
@@2ndplace1 maybe stops on all different stations?
You can get a LNER service it takes ~50m stopping at Stevenage
I wish i lived in the 80s so i could get to peterborough in only 3 minutes
Conveniently ignoring the major scientific laws of nature... we're British Rail!
A very well made movie.
ahhh the power of 5x playback speed.
I need to make intercity maglev
And yet it still managed to arrive 12 minutes late for some unfathomable reason
LOL 😂😂😂 You wish.
125 was the max speed and to be fair, it did as it said on the tin.
You do reallise its just a sped up video from probally the 70's
I guess everyone saw those awful sandwiches being served in the buffet and went 1,250mph to avoid them.
And they'd have done it in two minutes, only there were leaves on the line.
Request to BFI , pls upload blue pullman train documentary
Intercity, *We're getting there* (literally getting there)