Current number:
975089
Any other previous number(s):
BR DMU 50396
Notes:
Scrapped - Mayer Parry, Snailwell 2/91

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Comments

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  4 June 2007 - Jon Horswell

  Anyone know what TRIM stood for?

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  4 June 2007 - Simon Bendall

  Track Recording by Inertial Measuring

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  23 May 2008 - James Batson

  Hi

  Does anyone know what the black writing on the 2nd mans side of the cabend and the white writing down the side of the unit says?

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  23 May 2008 - Ben Williams

  Front text is just about readable on this photo

  http://gallery120232.fotopic.net/p9810627.html

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  23 May 2008 - James Batson

  Thanks ben

  I think ive got all the writing on the unit now apart from the top line of the side in this view :)

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  23 May 2008 - peter Cummings

  Instrumentation Development Section.

  Though 'section' is the one word I'm not 100% on - but it's too long to be 'Unit'.

  The pic is sharper in the MR Special on Derby, and the title is quoted in the OPC book.

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  23 May 2008 - SD0853

  The writing on the bodyside reads...

  Instrumentation Development Section

  Reaserch and Development Section

  Derby

  The writing at the front of the unit reads...

  Scientific Instrumentation

  Must be handled with care

  Not to be loose or hump shunted

  Ensure Handbrakes are off before

  Moving

  Hope this is of help.

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  22 June 2008 - James Batson

  Thanks guys, thats been a great help!

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  26 July 2010 - Andy Elms

  I presume this is some sort of Intertial Naviagation mapping of the Sub-Surface lines?

  Any more info, please?

  ta muchly

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  28 July 2010 - SD0853

  The TRIM unit measured ride quality.

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  1 August 2010 - Dave Smith

  check out dem flares! phewy

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  2 August 2010 - kev

  thats a nice team photo

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  5 August 2010 - Phil Hetherington

  A colleague tells me the unit was hired in by LU for a period when they didn't have their own track recording train available. Nice photo.

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  6 August 2010 - Tony Walmsley

  I am intrigued to know whether the dmu was running on its diesel engines or was being propelled by an LU battery loco

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  6 August 2010 - SD0853

  I'd imagine that it was running under it's own power, but possibly with restrictions on how much fuel it could carry due to fire risks.

  When the TRU (yellow sprinter) run's in the Mersey Rail tunnels, this is the protocol.

  I'm saying it's running under it's own power, as I don't think LUL had any "Vacuum Braked" loco's (by this time anyway), that could have been used to haul the unit.

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  12 August 2010 - Arthur Richards

  Between December 1984 and January 1988, before the LUL Track Recording Vehicle entered service, Lab 5 was used to collect track data for those sections of LUL track over which the vehicle was in gauge.

  The unit was self-propelled and driven by a BR driver with a LUL pilot.

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  12 August 2010 - Arthur Richards

  In October 1976 Lab 5 was shipped to Zeebrugge to carry out a track survey in Holland for an ORE project.

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  5 August 2023 - Arthur Richards

  Track survey in Holland for Civil Engineers.