Editing Advanced Passenger Train (section)

===Re-entry - and demise===
The APT-P trains were quietly reintroduced into service in mid-1984, but not mentioned as such on any of the timetables; passengers would find out if they were taking APT only when it arrived at the platform. These trains proved to work well, the problems having apparently been corrected. However, the political and managerial will to continue the project and build the projected 140&nbsp;mph capable APT-S production vehicles had evaporated.

Meanwhile, HST entered service as the [[InterCity 125]] in 1976 and proved to be an all-round success. Its diesel operation and slightly lower speeds also meant it could operate on more of BR's network. Pressure to abandon APT in favour of HST was continual. Supporters of the APT were increasingly isolated, and the system was removed from service in the winter of 1985/6. This was made formal in 1987, when the trains were broken up and sent to museums.

One APT-P set was kept at Glasgow Shields depot and found use once or twice as an [[multiple unit|EMU]] to take journalists from Glasgow Central to [[Anderston railway station]] and back, for the [[Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre]]. A second APT-P was stored in a siding behind Crewe Works. The Glasgow APT-P and the third APT-P were scrapped without publicity.