Air braked tests with 4 x Liner Train vehicles

Loco No. D6553      January 1964           

 

1T20      10-1-64           -do-                  2.50 p.m. Derby Loco Works (Pickerings Pit) - Knighton – Derby

                                                                Load:- No. 1 Dynamometer Car

 

1T21      16-1-64           -do-                   10.46 a.m. Derby C. & W. Works - Knighton – Derby  

                                                                Load:- No. 1 Dynamometer Car  +  4  empty Liner Train vehicles.

 

1T22      16-1-64           -do-                   2.50 p.m. Derby Loco. Works (Pickerings Pit) – Knighton – Derby  

                                                                Load:- No. 1 Dynamometer Car +  4 empty Liner Train  vehicles.

 

1T23      22-1-64            -do-                  10.46 a.m. Derby C. & W.  Works – Knighton – Derby.

                                                                Load:- No. 1 Dynamometer Car + 4 loaded Liner Train vehicles.

 

1T24      22-1-64            -do-                   2.50 p.m. Derby Loco. Works (Pickerings Pit)   Knighton – Derby  

                                                                Load:- No. 1 Dynamometer Car + 4 loaded Liner Train  vehicles.

                                                                                      

As far as I am aware the dynamometer car was never dual-brake so presumably was through piped

 

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