High Speed Trains (HSTs) – better known as the InterCity 125 – helped save British Rail in the 1970s and 80s, linking cities for more than four decades before disappearing from the tracks.

But now a UK-based company is reviving the "British Rail icon", unveiling its own InterCity 125 train set at the Mid-Norfolk Railway, which is due to return to service as part of its hire fleet.

Romic's InterCity 125(Image: Romic Group Limited/Colin Turner, Turner Photography)

Romic Group, which has a base at Dereham station, specialises in the sale of new and used locomotives, carriages and railway vehicles, exporting InterCity 125s across the globe.

Most rail companies have now replaced InterCity 125s with newer models, with East Midlands Railway (EMR) being one of the last to retire its fleet of HSTs in 2021.

Speaking on the platform of the Mid-Norfolk Railway at the launch on Tuesday, Robert Coleman, who owns Romic alongside his wife Mary, said it is "brilliant" to see the InterCity 125 back on the tracks in the UK.

Romic's InterCity 125 arrives at Dereham station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway(Image: Romic Group Limited/Colin Turner, Turner Photography)

Mary and Robert Coleman, owners........

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