Laboratory Coach 3

RDB975002 was used as a support vehicle for POP train

Scrapped on site at Old Dalby by MRJ Phillips in March 1996

The original POP train with Lab 3 in the formation passes Melton Junction en route to the Old Dalby test track

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On 10th January 1973 a test train heading north 'ran out of road' whilst carrying out a high speed test with the 'POP' train and Lab Coach 3, slid through the arrester bed and finished up 'on the floor'. Luckily nobody was hurt and the train sustained only minor damage.

POP train (PC3 and PC4) and Lab 3 - note the ballast on top of the bogie frame

BR Official

POP train with Lab 3 on the Widmerpool straight at Old Dalby

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At RTC on 15th July 1988

Colin Marsden

 

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