John Goodale
Basil Hancock
Railbus commissioning
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The prototype class 141 2-car Leyland railbus 141001 was commissioned at
the Mickleover test track in 1983. This ended up in Iran but 141113 is preserved at the
Midland Railway Centre, Butterley. Later RB004 was also commissioned here. It was built at Derby in 1984. The body was built at the Leyland plant at Workington and BREL Derby C&W were responsible for the underframe and final assembly. RB004 is preserved in running order at the Waverley Route Heritage Association site at Whitrope. |
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141001 outside the workshop at Mickleover on
6th October 1983 John Goodale |
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Railbus RB004 sits alongside the
wind tunnel at Mickleover during its commissioning tests in the spring of
1984. Basil Hancock |
