Your basic class 86 as built. Does what it says on the tin! 100mph, unsprung bogies and traction motors smashing the hell out of the track in the days when this wasn't fully understood (in this country) and led to some expensive modifications and track repair. They did sterling work on the West Coast main line, I have a record of a journey home to Stockport via Crewe from Euston that's only 20 minutes different from a current day Pendolino run. That doesn't seem like progress to me, the coaching stock was much more comfortable back then so the length of the journey was immaterial.
86034 at Manchester Piccadilly on a London Euston service.
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