Terence Charles Barry Miller,

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(21 August 1911 – 1989) was an English railway engineer who rose to become Chief Engineer (Traction & Rolling Stock) for

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Career

Miller began his career with the

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(LNER) as an apprentice, working under

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. He rose up the ranks of LNER and continued his career under

(BR) after nationalisation. In the

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list, he was awarded the

. At that time the Assistant Motive Power Superintendent of the

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. By the 1960s, when BR was withdrawing steam locomotives and dismantling facilities for them, Miller was one of several people who provided support to

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in his attempts to run the preserved ''Flying Scotsman''. He was appointed Chief Engineer (Traction & Rolling Stock) in 1968. It was in this position that Miller was credited with instigating the development of the

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, known as the High Speed Train (HST). At the time, BR was focused on developing an electric

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(APT), but by 1969 the APT project was significantly behind schedule. As a stop-gap measure, engineers devised plans for a 125-mile-per-hour (200 km/h) "High Speed Diesel Train", which Miller submitted to the

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(BRB) at the beginning of 1969; the submission won the endorsement of Henry Johnson, chairman of BRB. The HSDT eventually became the InterCity 125, introduced into service from 1975. Although the HST was intended to fill in for the APT, the APT project was eventually abandoned and it wasn't until 2017 that the first were withdrawn. Miller retired in 1973, three years before the HST entered service. He died in 1989.

Legacy

In 2008,

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named HST power car 43048 ''T.C.B. Miller MBE'' in his honour. Tim Shoveller, MD of EMT at time, and affectionately known throughout the railway industry as "Shovell Mouth", said that Miller was a giant on the railway industry. In 2011, preservation group

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launched "Project Miller", named in Miller's honour. The project returned the remaining prototype HST power car, number 41001, back to working order at

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in 2014 after years of static display in the

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.Historic Project Miller settles in at Ruddington ''

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'' issue 1355 February 2014 page 78

References

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