David Ford Collection
Author
Gerald Anthony
Gerald Anthony
Author
Metrovick Co-Bo 5705
| The British Rail Class 28 (Metropolitan-Vickers Type 2)
diesel locomotives, or 'Metrovicks' as they were popularly known, were built as
part of the British Railways 1955 Modernisation Plan. The locomotives had a
Co-Bo wheel arrangement (a 6-wheel bogie at one end, a 4-wheel bogie at the
other) D5705 survived by historical accident being renumbered S15705 and used from December 1968 by the Research Division for its Tribometer Test train |
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Metrovick Co-Bo S15705 passes East Leake on
the GC in April 1969 David Ford Collection |
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At RTC on Way and Works in 1972 attached
to the Tribometer test train Author |
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Metrovick Co-Bo 5705 at the head
of the Trib Train with Laboratory 11 RDB975046 behind the loco pictured near
Etwall on the Mickleover test track in 1972 Gerald Anthony |
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COV-AB RDB999900 and the
auto-trailer RDB975076 making up the Trib Train on
the Mickleover test track in 1972 Gerald Anthony |
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On Crewe Works at the open day in
September 2005 Author |
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