Here are a number of pictures of activities on the Testing Section between 1997 and 2000, mainly to do with freight and on-track plant, about the time the author joined them again after a break of 25 years!
Click on the picture for a bigger image - photos are from the author's collection unless otherwise indicated
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Recently re-painted into Serco livery, Test Car 2 sits in the yard at RTC in 1998 |
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Sunday morning in the EDU sees a bogie steel carrier being loaded with test weights. Test Car 6 in the background |
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A test train of train of Eurospine piggyback wagons waits in the loop at Carnforth ready to return to Derby, probably around 1999 |
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A test train of Eurospine piggyback wagons with trailer loads somewhere near the WCML probably around 1999 |
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A Plasser & Theurer 08-16/4x4C100-RT Tamper No:73919 being unloaded outside the RTC prior to its acceptance testing |
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Another view of the operation |
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A slip & brake test underway
on the WCML Down Slow near Winsford on 13th July 1999. The coupling
between the test car and the test vehicle has just been released. Author |
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A Geismar VMT 860 PL/UM Nos:
DR 98306 & DR 98305 pictured in the loop at Winsford after a test run from Derby
in 1999. Author |
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Matisa B41 UE tamper No: DR75301 outside the EDU |
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Matisa R24 S Ballast regulator No: DR77801 in the RTC yard |
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A DX 98300 series Geismar GP-TRAMM pictured on the middle road at Stoke-on-Trent on a test run to Crewe |
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Pioneer class 57 No: 57601 leaves Derby for Crewe
hauling the first MPV on a ride test in 1999. Graeme Donald |
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Test Car 6 with COV-AB van and a couple of rail-carrying wagons stands in the yard prior to venturing onto the main line in 1999 |
