APT-P Testing - whole train
Finally everything was ready for testing as a complete train
Here is the Testing outline plan drawn up by the Testing section - whether it was all completed without a hitch is doubtful Author's collection |
Part of set 370001 in the yard at RTC in 1978 - probably being equipped with instrumentation BR Official |
With what appears to be one car tilted out of line - where the punters are gathered on the platform - the set departs Stafford towards London. |
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Converting the intermediate Trailer Car S2 into a test car Author's collection |
Another view inside intermediate Trailer Car S2 Author's collection |
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Converting intermediate Trailer Car S2 into a test car Author's collection |
The control desk at one end of the finished test car Author's collection |
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The finished test car's instrumentation racks Author's collection |
The view from the control desk looking down the vehicle Author's collection |
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On 16th April 1980 at 1500: APT set 370004 leads 370003 at speed on a test run through Nuneaton. One of several runs that day. Graham Shaw |
370005 at Euston on a test run sometime in 1981 Tom Connell |
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A view inside the test car during the extensive acceptance tests with the workers at the coal face Unknown |
370006 on the middle road at Carlisle. The author remembers dashing up and down the Scottish part of the WCML at various times. I was fortunate enough to grab a ride in the cab sometimes - brilliant! P Searle |
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Power car Sc49004 at Carlisle P Searle |
Set No 370007 leans to the curve at Dodford Road, north of Weedon Unknown |
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370003 on the front cover of a BR promotional brochure from the mid 1980's BR official |
Another shot of 370003 from the brochure BR official |
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Set No 370004, now fitted with the BR/Brecknell Willis pantograph, heads south through Rugeley in the Trent Valley sometime in 1982 Unknown |
370006 in service at Preston on 7th December 1981 Unknown |
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July 1982 a shortened test APT-P comprising set No:370004 heads south past Hademore Level Crossing, Staffordshire with the vehicle behind the power car seemingly suffering from a tilt pack failure. Richard Billinge |
Set 370006 passes Wigan Springs Branch Junction in early 1982 Mark Estall |
And later testing up to 1986