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The Colourful History of Inter City 125 (HST Liveries) 1976 2026

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This video features the liveries that have been applied to the British Rail High Speed Train, the Inter-City 125, over a 50 year period. Rail privatisation saw the creation of new operators and each branded the locomotives and coaches in their own colours. As the operators changed more liveries arrived. In the end over 30 have been used.

00:00 - 04:33 The British Rail HST Liveries
04:34 - 07:50 Early Privatisation HST Liveries
07:51 - 10:46 The Western & Midland Change HST Liveries
10:47 - 12:01 The Network Measurement Train
12:02 - 19:12 New Operators & one-off HST liveries
19:13 - 23:02 The start of the run down.
23:03 - 25:13 Further Use of the HSTs
25:14 - 27:42 Retro HST Liveries


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  • Platform ID _MpgOtXYrfQ
  • Date published 14 Sep 2026 18:14
  • Date added 16 Sep 2026 21:34
  • Recorded 20 Nov 2005
  • Locomotives 19
  • Headcodes 0
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