Avanti West Coast Pendolino 390 122 departing Oxenholme Lake District Station, West Coast Main Line, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe.
Avanti West Coast is a train operating company in the United Kingdom owned by FirstGroup (70%) and Trenitalia (30%) that began operating the West Coast Partnership franchise on 8 December 2019. It replaced Virgin Trains, which had operated the franchise since 1997. Avanti West Coast commenced operations having inherited the existing Super Voyager and Pendolino fleets from Virgin Trains. Pendolino is an Italian family of tilting trains used in Italy, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Slovenia, Finland, Russia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, the UK, Switzerland and China. Based on the design of the Italian ETR 401 and the British Advanced Passenger Train, it was further developed and manufactured by Fiat Ferroviaria, which was taken over by Alstom in 2000. The idea of a tilting train became popular in the 1960s and 1970s when various rail operators, impressed by the high-speed rail services being introduced in France and Japan, wondered how they could similarly speed up travel without building a dedicated parallel rail network (as those two countries were doing). By tilting, the train could go around curves designed for slower trains at higher speeds without causing undue discomfort to passengers. During the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, this train bore the legend "Safe travels. Wear a face covering".
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Location: Oxenholme Lake District rail station, West Coast Main Line, Cumbria, England, United Kingdom, Europe
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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