Editing Inter-city rail (section)

====Western and Central Europe====
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[[File:43002 Ealing Broadway.jpg|thumb|An [[InterCity 125]] passes [[Ealing Broadway station]] in [[London]] on its way to [[Swansea]], Wales. This is the world's fastest [[Diesel locomotive|diesel]] train and was used on various intercity services in [[Great Britain]] until May 2021.]]
In Europe, many long-distance inter-city trains are operated under the [[InterCity]] (often simply IC) brand. ''InterCity'' (or, initially, "Inter-City" with a hyphen) was first conceived as a brand name by [[British Rail]] for the launch of its electrification of the major part of the [[West Coast Main Line]] in 1966, which brought new express services between London and the major cities of [[Manchester]], [[Birmingham]] and [[Liverpool]]. It later became the name of one of British Rail's new business sectors in the 1980s and was used to describe the whole network of main-line passenger routes in Great Britain, but it went out of official use following [[Privatisation of British Rail|privatisation]]. The introduction of the [[British Rail Class 43 (HST)]] helped InterCity become a familiar brand in the 1970s.

The principal network of international express trains in continental Europe is called [[EuroCity]], even though some InterCity trains also cross borders.

[[High-speed rail]]ways have relatively few stops. The [[Germany|German]] high-speed train service was named [[InterCityExpress]], indicating its evolution from older InterCity trains. Other high-speed lines include the [[TGV]] (France), [[AVE]] (Spain), [[Treno Alta Velocità]] (Italy), [[Eurostar]] (United Kingdom–France and Belgium), [[Thalys]] (Netherlands–Belgium–Germany and France), [[TGV Lyria|Lyria]] (France-Switzerland), and [[Railjet]] (Germany-Austria–Czechia/Hungary).