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6Z08 Ultrasonic Test Train (975007 / 975008) near Garelochhead on 15/4/84. Driver Peter Walker and secondman Brian Guthrie look fed up sat in the back cab. Spannerman37025.
RDB975010 Test Coach Iris, Newcastle, on June 2, 1984. John Carter.
Iris - 975010 - sits in Inverness station, circa mid-1980s. Norman Smart.
RDB 975010 'Test Coach Iris' at Inverness on 9/7/84. It was probably there in connection with the introduction of RETB working on the Kyle and Far North Lines. Kenneth Leiper.
Derby Lightweight single DMBS RDB975010 'Test Coach Iris' stabled at Dingwall on 17-7-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
RDB975010 scuttles along near Muir of Ord on 22 Augsuat 1984. Chris Thorp.
From the kitchen window of my then nearby home on a date I can't find in my notebooks, but probably in 1985, I saw 31426 arrive at Stratford-upon-Avon with the Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train (TDB975007/8) in tow. It went into the Down Goods Loop where the class 31 was detached, ran along the up main line to the crossover before being coupled to 6Z08 and prepared to leave. Here, the second man watches the locomotive approach along the by then rarely used loop which was taken out of use within a few weeks. Peter Tandy.
From the kitchen window of my then nearby home on a date I can't find in my notebooks, but probably in 1985, I saw 31 426 arrive at Stratford-upon-Avon with the Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train (TDB975007/975008) in tow. It went into the Down Goods Loop where the class 31 was detached, ran along the up main line to the crossover before being coupled to 6Z08 and prepared to leave. After a brake test carried out I took this picture as 6Z08 left the loop to use the crossover (which the signalman maintained wasn't fit to use!) and joined the up main line towards Bearley Junction. Peter Tandy.
Derby Leightweight RDB975010 stabled at the Derby RTC. The slide process date was April 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Test Coach Iris at Inverness on 20/06/85. Roddy MacPhee.
975010 at Inverness on 22/06/85. Photo courtesy (c) StevenH. Roddy MacPhee Collection.
Displaying the headcode 6Z08, Ultrasonic Test Train DB975007 - DB975008 arrives at the south end of platform 6 at Wigan North Western, 6th July 1985. Built in 1955 the unit had been converted to departmental use 15 years earlier and would eventually be secured for preservation after final withdrawal in 1994. S Gaskell.
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test train 975008 + 975007 stopped at Leamington Spa. The driver is on the phone to the Signal box visible beyond him, officially Leamington Spa SB though the cast nameboard included North, but not picked out in white, while the diagram included Jc. The adjacent box to the South was by then, Fenny Compton. The new SSI PSB is behind the photographer then in shadow mode. P42 is a power operated derailer as there isn't room for a trap point. Nicholas T Smith.
This is what the Ultrasonic Test Train looked like in 1985. It consisted of two Derby Lightweight DMU vehicles carrying the numbers 975007 + 975008 and on 10 August of that year was carrying the reporting number 6Z08 while running from Derby to Marylebone when I photographed it passing Leamington Spa station. Peter Tandy.
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train 975007 + 975008 at Newcastle on 22/10/1985. Graeme Phillips Collection.
RDB 975010 'Iris' stabled at Dingwall on the 16th January 1986 while on RETB testing duties. Hamish Stevenson.
Derby Lightweight single car RDB 975010 'Test Coach Iris' stabled on Derby RTC on 8-6-86, with APT non-driving motor 49005 behind. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
975010, Test Coach Iris, at Doncaster in 1986. John Law.
975010 - Test Coach Iris - seen at Bletchley TMD circa 1986. Graham Baker.
975010 at Bletchley TMD circa 1986. It's carrying CA, DY and RG shed stickers! Graham Baker.
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