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This is the authors' accepted manuscript of an article that has been published in its final definitive form by Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd., 2018.
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From 1972 British Rail's "Advanced Passenger Train Experimental" (APT-E) tested a combination of innovations that promised a tantalising and proficient mobility on the UK’s Victorian-era railway network. The project’s failure and eventual cancellation in 1985 has made the preservation and display of APT-E awkward. APT-E's revolutionary mobility sits awkwardly with its present (immobile) material state as a museum artefact, as does the context of derision and disappointment surrounding its cancellation. By experiencing APT-E in situ and interviewing the preservation team this paper forms an initial exploration of the kinds of ideas and tactics are used by those who preserve and display awkward and rejected mobilities in a way that rehabilitates their potential and their temporal indeterminacy.
Author(s): Wright P
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Area
Year: 2018
Volume: 51
Issue: 1
Pages: 45-54
Print publication date: 01/03/2019
Online publication date: 24/09/2018
Acceptance date: 13/07/2018
Date deposited: 06/11/2019
ISSN (print): 0004-0894
ISSN (electronic): 1475-4762
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12496
DOI: 10.1111/area.12496
Notes: Accepted pending copy-edit
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