DIESEL LIGHT WEIGHT TRAINS COMMITTEE
Minutes of 33rd Meeting held on the 21st June, 1955
PRESENT :-
Mr.E.S.Hunt,
Assistant General Manager (Chairman)
" B.Adkinson,
Assistant Motive Power Superintendent Euston
" N.H.R.Dade,
Assistant to Regional Accountant, Euston
" T.Fiske,
Assistant to General Manager (Modernisation), Euston
" I.C.Forsyth,
representing Assistant M.& E. Engineer, Derby
" R.L.E.Lawrence,
representing Assistant Operating Supt, Euston
" H.Leach,
representing Assistant Commercial Supt, Euston
" R.L.M'Ilmoyle,
representing Assistant Civil Engineer, Euston
" E.Stanley,
Assistant Carriage & Wagon Engineer, Derby
" J.W.Tonge,
Assistant P.R.& P.O., Euston
" R.Varley,
Assistant to General Manager, Euston
" C. Lakin,
General Manager's Office, Euston. (Secretary)
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312. MINUTES OF MEETING OF 19TH APRIL, 1955.
Agreed.
313. INTER-CITY TRAINS
(a) Design of Units
Noted that the Commission have now agreed to the proposed preliminary
trial on the understanding that no commitments are entered into and that the B.T.C.
Chief Electrical Engineer and Chief Carriage & Wagon Engineering Offices are
associated with the experiment. The matter will be reported at the next meeting of
the Technical Development and Research Committee, to whom the results of the
experiment will also require to be reported in due course.
The General Manager has requested Messrs.Harrison and Randle to give
information, in due course, of expenditure involved and to keep him advised of
progress made with the experiment.
Mr.Stanley stated that two cars are being prepared for the experiment
and work is proceeding smoothly but it is not yet possible to give a forecast of
when the unit will be completed nor to give a firm cost.
The Chairman said that the B.T.C. had set up a Committee of which he had
been appointed a member, to consider the introduction of diesel multiple unit main
line express passenger trains as an alternative to diesel locomotives. The
B.T.C have been informed that if the L.M.Region's two schemes for Inter-city trains
can be developed in reasonable time they will no doubt give some valuable
information in connection with the enquiry by the new Committee.
