My Facebook has come up with this link to a clip from the BBC On This Day page showing the special Nationwide InterCity train in 1977, which was presumably set up to enable the team from the BBC's Nationwide news and current affairs programme to tour the country:
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Unfortunately you may not be able to access the link if you're not on Facebook.
It has a rare view of the interior of a Mark 1 sleeping car (unfortunately only showing the view towards the corridor, not towards the window and the washbasin).
Does anyone know which locos and coaches were used on this train, whether the sleeping cars used on it were withdrawn or returned to normal service after the train was disbanded, what the laboratory/studio coaches were used for before and after being used for this purpose, and how long the train ran for?
1977: Nationwide: Intercity Train | #OnThisDay 1977: Michael Barratt gave viewers a tour of the Nationwide Intercity - because what TV programme DOESN'T have its own train? | By BBC ArchiveFacebook
#OnThisDay 1977: Michael Barratt gave viewers a tour of the Nationwide Intercity - because what TV programme DOESN'T have its own train?
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Unfortunately you may not be able to access the link if you're not on Facebook.
It has a rare view of the interior of a Mark 1 sleeping car (unfortunately only showing the view towards the corridor, not towards the window and the washbasin).
Does anyone know which locos and coaches were used on this train, whether the sleeping cars used on it were withdrawn or returned to normal service after the train was disbanded, what the laboratory/studio coaches were used for before and after being used for this purpose, and how long the train ran for?
