The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger railway carriage built by British Rail Engineering Limited beginning in 1975, notable for a longer body and smoother-riding bogies than earlier British coach designs, giving a noticeably improved ride at speed. It became the standard carriage of the InterCity 125 High Speed Train sets that transformed British long-distance rail travel from the late 1970s onward, and Mark 3 coaches were also used in locomotive-hauled InterCity services and exported for use overseas, with examples remaining in passenger service for decades after their introduction.
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SignificancePassenger carriage of the 1970s whose variant became the rolling stock of the High Speed Train (HST). 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. British Rail Mark 3 (Wikipedia)
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A variant of the Mark 3 became the rolling stock for the High Speed Train (HST).
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1972-present
In Group: Intercity Trainsets of Britain and the United States, Lead sentence
The British Rail Mark 3 is a type of passenger carriage developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the car in the 1970s.
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