British Rail’s third design of standard passenger carriage designated ‘Mark 3′ (or Mark III) was developed in response to growing competition from airlines and the motorcar in the 1960s. A variant of the Mark 3 became the rolling stock for the High Speed Train or Inter-City 125Originally conceived as locomotive-hauled coaching stock the first coaches built were for the prototype HST in 1972.
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First Great Western, First ScotRail, Network Rail, East Coast (train operating company), Chiltern Railways, Virgin Trains, Arriva Trains Wales, Direct Rail Services, CrossCountry, Abellio Greater Anglia, Grand Central Railway, East Midlands Trains
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