APT-P whole train testing.htm

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.
	Converting the intermediate Trailer Car S2 into a test car Author's collection		Another view inside intermediate Trailer Car S2 Author's collection
	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
	The finished test car's instrumentation racks Author's collection		The view from the control desk looking down the vehicle Author's collection
	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
	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
	Power car Sc49004 at Carlisle P Searle		Set No 370007 leans to the curve at Dodford Road, north of Weedon Unknown
	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
	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
	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

Still running on 4th April 1986 set 370001 is pictured in platform 7 at Preston at the end of a test run from Crewe. The train crew are walking down the platform and appear to be changing ends

Chris Ward

370008 pictured somewhere on the WCML with a shortened rake - probably a test train - on 14th March 1984

A Stobbs

Inside the test vehicle in 1986

Chris Ward

May be an image of 1 person, train, railway and text

1M25 the 0900 APT from Glasgow to Euston which was unadvertised and was offered to passengers on arrival at Glasgow Central. Photo taken in March 1984

Paul Strathdee

At Preston in March 1984.

Paul Strathdee

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