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A Railwayman's View - BR Western Region by Peter Collins > To The West > LPPC DSL BW 0964

 

 

The photographs in this collection are from the To The West section of Peter Collins' Railwayman's View Book Volume One - BR Western Region.

LPPC DSL BW 0964 Out in the coaching-stock yard of Swindon Works, around the back, stands the famous Track Testing Car based on an original Dean carriage and colloquially known as the ‘Whitewash Coach’. Marshalled in a test train, any track irregularities causing the vehicle to sway too much caused a load of whitewash to be dumped on the track, so telling the men on the ground where to look for trackwork problems. Nearer the camera is a Collett BG full brake, but it is interesting to note that the Mark 2 FK in the background is mounted on Mark 1 bogies. Keywords: BR, Western, Swindon Works, Dean, Track Testing Car, 'Whitewash Coach',
LPPC DSL BW 0964 Out in the coaching-stock yard of Swindon Works, around the back, stands the famous Track Testing Car based on an original Dean carriage and colloquially known as the ‘Whitewash Coach’. Marshalled in a test train, any track irregularities causing the vehicle to sway too much caused a load of whitewash to be dumped on the track, so telling the men on the ground where to look for trackwork problems. Nearer the camera is a Collett BG full brake, but it is interesting to note that the Mark 2 FK in the background is mounted on Mark 1 bogies. Keywords: BR, Western, Swindon Works, Dean, Track Testing Car, 'Whitewash Coach',
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Out in the coaching-stock yard of Swindon Works, around the

back, stands the famous Track Testing Car based on an original Dean carriage and colloquially known as the ‘Whitewash Coach’. Marshalled in a test train, any track irregularities causing the vehicle to sway too much caused a load of whitewash to be dumped on the track, so telling the men on the ground where to look for trackwork problems. Nearer the camera is a Collett BG full brake, but it is interesting to note that the Mark 2 FK in the background is mounted on Mark 1 bogies.