Maintenance
Exams were an important part of the maintenance regimes at depots.
There were many issues of these over the years, as BR gained experience with the new vehicles and shifted focus as components became older.
Maintenance on Diesel Railcars by C&W Examiners
This foolscap size document is undated, but stamped as Carriage & Wagon Watford — which had a first generation DMU allocation from May 1958 to January 1965, and this is likely from the earlier part of that timeframe.
At that, time work was split between different types of staff, and the first three pages define the responsibilities for the departments of the Motive Power Superintendent, Carriage and Wagon Engineer, the Chief Mechanical and Electrical Engineer, and the Chief Operating Superintendent.
There are three brakework system drawings, two of which show which parts are handled by Motive Power or C&W staff. These may have been colour coded in some versions, but just black and white in my copy — but you can tell which parts of the pipe which had been coloured.
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Standard Examinations
BR 87264/1 Revised issue March 1965
Covers exams from 625 miles up to five yearly.
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Standard Examination
The introduction pages note this as the replacement for BR 87264/1 (above), and came in two parts:
BR 12014 — Standard Examination Schedules
BR 12013 — Standard Examination Job Descriptions
The pages were kept in a binder, the Eastern Region version is shown:
The pages were A5 size (5 ⅞" x 8 ¼") and of thin white paper, the card dividers were wider at 6 ½". The ER binder was 7 ¼" x 8 ⅞" x 1 ⅜".
There were at least three issues:
Issue 1 — June 1973
Issue 2 — March 1975
Issue 3 — February 1979
Issue 1 — June 1973
BR 12014 — Standard Examination Schedules
Download BR 12014 (Blue Square and White Circle Coupling Codes) — 7.3mb PDF
Download BR 12014-1 (Orange Star and Red Triangle Coupling Codes) — 5.8mb PDF
BR 12013 — Standard Examination Job Descriptions
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Vehicle Maintenance Instructions (VMI)
The VMI became the standard maintenance manual for DMUs in the Regional Railways era, and contained many sections.
Winterization
The chapter on winterization dealt with protecting the vehicles in the colder weather and was normally in effect for the 1st November to 31st March period.
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Job 0116 called for draining the water from the vehicles with toilets, and this 5 ¾" x 4 ¼" 1989 ScotRail booklet reproduces the diagrams of the vehicle and details the location of the drain cocks on those vehicles.
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