Download or read book Loco Testing on Railways 1901-1968 written by Dave Peel and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.