BBC Archive | 1948: New LOCOMOTIVE TESTING Facility | Newsreel | Retro Transport | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded September 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
BBC Television Newsreel visits Rugby, where a new locomotive testing station for British Railways is being opened by Transport Minister, Alfred Barnes.

The first job at the new facility is to undertake speed trials on the Pacific class A4 steam engine, Sir Nigel Gresley.

Clip taken from BBC Television Newsreel, originally broadcast on BBC Television, Friday 22 October, 1948.




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