DW 150192 - Test Car 4
Photo details
- Crewe Basford Hall yard
- April 1973
Favourites
More photos of this vehicle...
Your comments
-
Ben Williams
10 November 2008, 13:56:40
Great vintage shot that really captures the 1970s feel! More shots like these on Dave's Old Dalby website - see the Links page for the address.
-
Dave Coxon
20 November 2008, 21:56:26
This was around April 1973 from memory and the train consist was 2 x class 86 plus ten Mk2 coaches. E3130 was dead and we were testing the rheo/friction brake blending as the class 86 locos were suffering from tyre shelling - the tyres were being overheated by the brakes and shedding small pieces. We ran to Willesden Freightliner terminal and back. I think we unhooked the locos and test car and turned them on the triangle - we did the same at Speke Junction before heading back to Crewe. DW150192 was the ex-WR Dynamometer Car originally painted in chocolate and cream
-
Dave Coxon
7 April 2009, 22:38:00
Built at Swindon in 1947 as a third class corridor carriage to a design by F W Hawksworth, on lot number 1691, this vehicle originally carried the number 796. It was withdrawn from service and extensively converted in 1961 to become the BR Western Region Dynamometer Car, renumbered as DW150192. It was purchased privately for preservation in 1983 and moved to the Foxfield Railway the same year, but subsequently sold to the group restoring BR 4-6-2 71000 "Duke of Gloucester", as a support coach and is currently resident at Steamtown, Carnforth.
Anybody confirm its whereabouts and condition?
-
Harold Nicolson
19 January 2010, 16:33:54
We looked after NBR No. 673 Loco and two Caledonian Rly coaches at the marshalling yard, Bold Collery, St Helens for 150 Rocket. We wore mini vests, but uncomfortable fastened with rubber buttons !
-
kev smith
19 January 2010, 22:38:04
e3130 now owned by frieghtliner 86637 still working hard !!
-
Frank Nicholas
20 January 2010, 18:03:44
I saw DW150192 at Carnforth in the south end sidings when a railtour took water there last year.
Still looked complete, although a little tatty...
-
Mike Griffiths
21 March 2010, 13:25:46
Interested to know whether any equipment remained inside now . . . as my father may have worked on machining some equipment for the car back in Swindon when it was convereted.