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APT-P (Class 370), at Carlisle, 1983. In the 1963, the British Rail board voted to established the British Rail Research Division, to explore new technologies for high-speed freight and passenger rail services on existing rail infrastructure, leading to the initiation of the Advanced Passenger Train (APT) programme, with a planned top speed of 155 mph (249 km/h).
In 2011, the fastest timetabled start-to-stop run by a UK domestic train service was the Hull Trains 07.30 King's Cross to Hull, which covered the 125.4 km (77.9 miles) from Stevenage to Grantham in 42 minutes at an average speed of 179.1 km/h (111.3 mph).
30 mph (48 km/h) repeater sign used to remind drivers of the speed limit (on a road without street lighting) The speed limit for motor cars was raised to 20 mph (32 km/h) by the Motor Car Act 1903 which stood until 1 January 1931 when all speed limits for cars and motorcycles were abolished under the Road Traffic Act 1930. [39]
The 2007 government white paper "Delivering a Sustainable Railway" stated that trains that travel at a speed of 350 km/h (220 mph) used 90% more energy than at 200 km/h (125 mph), [243] which would result in carbon emissions for a London to Edinburgh journey of approximately 14 kilograms (31 lb) per passenger for high-speed rail compared to 7 ...
The average speed on the Underground is 20.5 mph (33.0 km/h). [8] Outside the tunnels of central London, many lines' trains tend to travel at over 40 mph (64 km/h) in the suburban and countryside areas. The Metropolitan line can reach speeds of 62 mph (100 km/h). [110]
New vehicles should be fitted with limiters as follows. Buses and coaches: 70 mph (113 km/h) [n 2] HGVs: 60 mph (97 km/h) [n 2] Mopeds: 30 mph (48 km/h) [n 3] Older vehicles still in use do not have limiters fitted or have them set at a higher speeds. [12] These devices do not enforce speed limits as they do not adapt to speed limit changes.
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The grid system is made up of 11 roads aligned roughly north–south and 10 aligned roughly east–west. In early planning documents, these were simply designated as "V roads" and "H roads" respectively (for "vertical", roughly north–south, and "horizontal", roughly East/West); these designations have remained popular alongside the subsequent formal (conventional) names.