Bletchleyite
Veteran Member
And by doing so they have turned the Liverpool-Manchester leg of the supposed "fast" Liverpool-Newcastle inter-city service into a regional service — in German terms IC becomes RE.
Other than the WCML service which is more like an IR (or modern day IC, where the VTWC services would be the ICE), in German terms all of TPE is a RE. That it likes to talk itself up as some kind of InterCity operation doesn't mean it is, not even with fancy rolling stock. And it's not like it's rare for DB REs to be LHCS, so just having the Mk5s does not make it IC.