695. SCHEMES UNDER CONSIDERATION BY COMMITTEE BUT NOT
YET SUBMITTED TO B.T.C. (Contd.)
Priority Schemes (Contd.)
2. North Wales Part 3 (Chester N. -
Wrexham C. - New Brighton)
Noted:- Costing almost complete and will be submitted to
General Manager by end of July.
3. Manchester (C) - Liverpool
(C) Express Service
Noted:- Submission almost ready for costing. Service
will commence about March 1960, and Mr.Crawshaw will consider publicity.
696. SCHEMES IN OPERATION
1. Derby, Nottingham and Leicester (Part 1)
Failure of units
Noted that although some difficulty was still being experienced due
to loss of water from cooling systems, it was hoped to overcome the trouble by an
alteration of design. Agreed position be reviewed in three months.
2. Traffic receipts
Traffic receipts for April 1959 attached as Appendix "A".
697. DIESEL MULTIPLE UNIT DE LUXE
PULLMAN SERVICE MANCHESTER - ST.PANCRAS
(a) Utilisation of stand-by train
The Chairman said that the General Manager had agreed that the
Secretary General's reactions be awaited to the report sent to him. Mr.Blee
had, however, raised certain further points, an the Committee agreed the
replies as follows:-
1. The power car at each end is semi-permantently
coupled to the car next to it, which has traction motors mounted on the
bogie adjacent to the power car.
Each "second" car also carries the Rolls Royce auxiliary
power equipment underneath the body and there are eight power etc.
cables between the power and "second" car at each end.
The third car from each end is a trailer car but has no
driving compartment and it appears that a unit of three cars could
only be driven in on direction. It appears therefore that
each train of six cars must be regarded as one unit for maintenance
purposes.
