Download or read book Intercity HST 125 written by Hugh Llewelyn and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the HST is a rare example of British design success. Developed in the 1970s at a time when the railways were in desperate need of modernization, it filled the gap left by the failure of the infamous APT tilting train to become the mainstay of high-speed rail travel for several decades.