Continuous brakes on freight trains. Braking tests on mixed trains of goods and mineral wagons (E-254)

In February, 1959, the B.T.C. urgently required, for policy decisions, tests on braking performance and behaviour of continuously braked fully-fitted freight trains containing both goods and mineral wagons, using Instanter or similar couplings. A programme of tests was devised to obtain this Information, and to cover the effects of spindle...