The 125's tend to do the western routes and the 225's the northern routes.
The 125 is still the fastest diesel electric in the world, I believe. The 125 is the avg top speed - it has attained more than 145mph over distance before.
When I was on a 225 once I heard a kid ask the ticket collector how fast we were going - the ticket collector said 125mph.
I think most see the '2' in '225' like a model number rather than a speed. ie you take a '1' 25 model or a '2' 25 model.
You are correct about the ideas behind it all though.
Don't mention anything about the 156mph APT though. Unlike concorde that was a total waste of tax-payers money!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "U.S. Metric Association" <[email protected]> Subject: [USMA:32567] RE: More Metric Muddle Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:54:30 +0000
Back in the days of British Rail I remember a train called the "Inter City 125" that ran on several routes, including London Kings Cross-Edinburgh Waverley. I actually rode a couple of them.
Somewhat after came an "Inter City 225" train. It didn't go that much faster, and apparently its speed was defined in km/h.
So ... if you want to appear faster, use km/h. If you want the price of potatoes to seem lower, use lb. No wonder there's a muddle.
Carleton
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> --- Stephen Humphreys wrote: > > > I thnk it might be something like: > > > > "Here's the nought to sixty figure, so you know how > > quick it will accelerate > > on the road." > > > > and > > > > "And here's the nought to 100 figure, just for > > information y'hear? Of course > > you'd never test that would you?" > > Here in Canada I would, because 100 km/h is > an allowable highway speed. > > What I was getting at, is that some people have > pointed out > that in Britain celsius is often used to report cold > temperatures because 0 and below give an "appearance" > of being "cold", but they prefer Fahrenheit in the > summer because saying that the temperature is 90 > degrees (not that it happens often in Britain) "sounds > hotter" than saying the temperature is around 30 > degrees. In other words 30 degrees doesn't seem hot > to them, but 90 degrees does. > > Using that same logic, if Britain used metric speeds, > instead of reporting a car's 0 to 60 mph time, the new > standard could be the car's 0 to 100 km/h time. > Doesn't 100 sound faster? Or is 60 "just right", > because it's what you're used to? > > Stephen Gallagher >
