Brush
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BR Official
Early Traction Performance testing
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In the early days of the Modernisation Plan a number of diesel locomotives were tested by the the Regional CM&EEs including staff from Derby Click on the pictures for a bigger image - All photos are from the author's collection except where otherwise credited. |
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In March 1958 a BTH/Paxman Type 1 loco D8203 is pictured at Ilkeston on the Erewash Valley line heading a very long train of 16 ton mineral wagons |
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EE Type 2 D8000 negotiates Derby North Jcn on an unknown date in 1958 with the Dynamometer car and an MTU in tow. The train would have travelled from the south avoiding Derby Station via Chaddesden Sidings. Note the ex Midland Railway signal works in the right background - the Derby Evening Telegraph offices occupy the site today. Photo taken from the North Junction signal box. |
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The prototype Deltic DP1 pictured near Armathwaite on the Settle-Carlisle line whilst undergoing performance testing in 1956. Note the two MTU's in the train. |
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Somewhere on the WCML 1Z09 a test train consisting of long wheelbase ferry vans with three Mobile Test Units is pictured hauled by an unidentified AL5 loco |
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Brush Falcon diesel locomotive
D0280 pictured whilst undergoing performance tests on the Western Region.
With 18 coaches plus the new WR
'Hawksworth' Dynamometer Car (later to become Test Car 4) behind the
drawbar, the train is pictured on the Lickey Incline in February 1962. For
more information about the locomotive and these tests look
here. Brush |
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The prototype 4000HP diesel locomotive 'Kestrel' built by Brush (later
Hawker Siddeley) and numbered HS4000 is pictured on a test train stabled in front of the Locomotive Works
at Derby on 30th August 1968. The date is the day before the annual open day
(Horticultural Show) when the loco was allowed onto the Works in between tests
on the WCML. Author |
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'Kestrel' at Crewe with
Dynamometer Car No:3 and three MTU's plus E3132 dead AC locomotive on the
back - circa August 1968 BR Official |
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A close up of the bogie instrumentation on Kestrel. For more information about Kestrel and about these tests look here |