• The Old Dalby Test Track is a railway in the United Kingdom which is used for testing new designs of trains and railway infrastructure. It runs between...
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    Old Dalby is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Broughton and Old Dalby, in the Melton district of Leicestershire, England. It is...
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    difficulties and the low price of coal at the time. The original Old Dalby test track is owned by BRB (Residuary) Ltd. and runs from Melton Mowbray via...
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    abandoned. Driver training and extensive testing of the new fleet was performed at the Old Dalby Test Track from November 1999. The first Class 175 entered...
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    later broadcast publicly. The test was carried out on the Old Dalby Test Track and was organised by the CEGB. The test was intended to demonstrate to...
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  • The test track is built on the site of a closed broad gauge (1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in)) line. Global Centre of Rail Excellence Old Dalby Test Track High...
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    and on the Old Dalby Test Track, where in January 1976 it attained a speed of 143.6 mph (231.1 km/h). The unit was only intended for testing and was never...
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    for all rail types. After testing, the first IVES track has been installed in the Asfordby Tunnel of the Old Dalby Test Track in England in 2013 and since...
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  • larger assets were Glasgow Eastfield depot, North Pole depot, the Old Dalby Test Track, the Railway Technical Centre, Derby, and the closed Waterloo International...
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    2009 at the Wayback Machine Old Dalby Test Track site – Pictures of the Drewry car RDB998901 in action at BR's test track Wickham Railbus Group – owners...
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    train departed Hitachi's Kasado factory; post-delivery testing commenced at Old Dalby Test Track shortly after its arrival in the UK. The planned introduction...
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    Nottingham, avoiding Leicester. The line still exists today as the Old Dalby Test Track. The station was opened for goods on 1 November 1879 and to passengers...
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    aerodynamics tests. A set of maintenance buildings was built along this line at Old Dalby, and the line as a whole became known as the Old Dalby Test Track. Although...
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    the Railway Technical Centre for weighing and other tests. 89001 was moved to the Old Dalby Test Track for evaluation and pantograph tuning on 13 April 1987...
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    March 1997. p. 2. "Old Dalby test track sold as part of Railtest". The Railway Magazine. No. 1152. April 1997. p. 9. "Serco wins Old Dalby". Rail. No. 568...
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    after. Only a stub remains in use south of the old station site to Melton Mowbray as the Old Dalby Test Track. The site of Edwalton station has since been...
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    doors. When research and testing required stretches of real railway line, the Research Division used the Old Dalby Test Track, and at Mickleover in Derby...
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  • – via The Railways Archive. (Promotional leaflet) "E Train". The Old Dalby Test Track. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 26 November...
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    Nottingham, avoiding Leicester. The line still exists today as the Old Dalby Test Track. The station was opened for passengers on 2 February 1880 by the...
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    Nottingham railway station; Keyworth once had its own station (now on the Old Dalby test track) but it was closed in the 1960s. The closest airport, East Midlands...
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    for use when the vehicle was propelled at the Old Dalby test track, and was later used for airflow tests before being rescued first by Hastings Diesels...
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    Innovation & Development Centre in Melton, Leicestershire for testing on the Old Dalby Test Track. The first unit was delivered to Taff's Well depot on 21...
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  • Retrieved 25 November 2006. (Promotional leaflet) "E Train". The Old Dalby Test Track. Archived from the original on 29 August 2007. Retrieved 26 November...
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    Overground. Testing of the first batch of new units, the 172/0 sets for London Overground, commenced in March 2010 on the Old Dalby Test Track. All units...
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    were tested prior to delivery at Old Dalby Test Track in Leicestershire, preventing the need for weekend or evening closures of lines in London to test trains...
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    station is now a pub and grill an the line still is now used as the Old Dalby Test Track. Although is closed towards Nottingham way. The station was opened...
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    the former Grimston station. The line still exists today as the Old Dalby Test Track. The station was opened for goods (1 November 1879) & passengers...
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    London Underground S Stock moves between Derby Litchurch Lane Works, Old Dalby Test Track and London Underground's Neasden Depot. It hires these from various...
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    train or track. The State of Nevada, USA, released a report entitled, "Implications of the Baltimore Rail Tunnel Fire for Full-Scale Testing of Shipping...
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    the line from Melton Mowbray to Edwalton. This is now known as the Old Dalby Test Track. Originally dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the church was re-dedicated...
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