Locomotive Testing On Britains Railways 1901 1968 A Non Technical Overview

The years 1901-68 cover the heyday of locomotive testing from the advent of the first dynamometer car through to the end of British Railway's activities in this area. In 1948, BR inherited the revamped Swindon test plant together with the three dynamometer cars from 1901 (GWR), 1906 (NER) and 1913 (L&YR) around which testing had revolved for decades. With the Rugby testing station soon to be opened, the following years were set to become the busiest and most interesting testing years of all. Most of the book relates to this period.