Re: What to do with XPT?

["David Proctor" <daproc.spambait@umpires.com>]

David Bromage wrote in message <75irso$5ph$6@news.mel.aone.net.au>...
>> Some MK3 sleepers from old British Rail refurbished to tilt carriages for
>> Swiss rail's Intercity tilt train testing. Since XPT and HST style MK3
trains
>> are similar in structures I guess it wouldn't be hard.
>
>Actually, it was the Mk IV cars which were built with provision for
>tilting. Although the HST uses Mk III cars, the XPT used a local design.
>The only real similarity is the bogies.

That still doesn't change the fact that some Mark3 cars went to Switzerland
and were fitted with tilting bogies, David.