Recognition and Equipment information
	Class 370

Four vehicles of a half APT set stand outside the Engineering Development Unit at the RTC Derby before road testing commenced. The driving car at the front is what became 370001. CJM

In later years, around the time the APT entered a very short period of passenger running, the InterCityAPT title was applied to the front end. A two car formation of APT stock is seen at Derby. CJM

A pair of APT power cars Nos. SC49001 and SC49002 stand with a barrier car in the yard of Derby locomotive Works awaiting modification. Each full APT formation would have had two of these huge power plants coupled in the centre. CJM

Although many people consider the APT was a total flop, a huge amount of research and information was obtained from a large number of non-revenue earning runs made over the northern section of the West Coast route, here a complete train formed of sets 370005 and 370003 head towards Glasgow over the curvaceous section of route north of Carlisle. CJM

For assistance purposes, the nose cone of the APT could be lifted to reveal a pair of retractable buffers and a drop head buck-eye coupling and standard air brake connections. CJM

Detail of the articulated bogie arrangement used between the inner end of the driving car and the outer end of the passenger rake. CJM

APT cab layout. CJM

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