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Wheelslide on lab coach 3 grimston station (IM-PS-113)

Last updated on 02 December 2013 4:46

On 4th December 1971 during the proving trials for the Redcor computer, a Type 4 locomotive and Lab Coach 3 locked their wheels while braking gently from 90 mph on the Edwalton-Melton Mowbray test track. The Redcor was logging various parameters including the speed of one of the coach wheelsets,...

Author(s): Crawford K.E.

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1972

United Kingdom

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