The Leyland Experimental Vehicle (LEV)

The forerunner of all those nasty railbuses was the Leyland Experimental Vehicle, a joint venture between Leyland and BR  to combine the worst features of rail and bus. Here are some pictures of the some of the early railbuses at RTC and at the test track.

There were five single car railbuses built on BR for trials and miraculously they have all survived - look here for information and pictures.

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	The first LEV was un-powered and is shown here in the sidings at the RTC around 1978 BR
	A view of the Wickham version of the railbus (known as LEV2) at the test track - pictured on the straight between the Covered Way and Grimston. This finished up in the USA - look here and here for more info and pictures. BR
	R3 pictured at the Control Centre at Old Dalby on test Alan Rimmer

For more pictures of the various versions look on my train testing site

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