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Did the express sprinters ever to Bristol to Weymouth on Wessex Trains/First Great Western?

Not sure about the line speeds in Scotland as I live down south, but there may be 100 mph sections on the WCML from Edinburgh to Glasgow via Carstairs or between Glasgow Central and Lanark as they share these tracks with the fast trains to Glasgow.

When Southern ran as far as Milton Keynes Central would the 377 reach 100 mph on that section? 1681045223 With the diesel transpenine desiros I know there were a number of locations where they could reach max speed on the WCML and ECML.

There are some Waterloo to Weymouth services (or at least there were in older timetables) which run non stop to Basingstoke or even Winchester, and definitely some that run non stop from Woking to Basingstoke or Winchester. On the Southeastern routes aren't there some fast trains through...

Between Weybridge and Basingstoke? I always thought it was like 80-90 mph on the lines out of London Waterloo. Can they still get that fast when they are running as 8, 10 or 12 cars instead of 4 or 5? By London Liverpool Street I meant when the Great Eastern Desiros went out of Liverpool Street...

I know there has been a discussion on the Turbostars and the Sprinters, in terms of where on the rail network they can reach their max speed, but what about their electric counterparts? For the Electrostar I imagine it would be on the lines out of London Paddington (Great Western) and Kings...