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British Transport Commission Loco Test Bulletins.

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  1. Eightpot

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    Anyone with ideas as to where the one covering the testing of an ex LNER V2 (No. 8) can be found? An original, photocopy, or on a website even.
     
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    When and where did this testing take place? There are various test reports held in the NRM Technical Archive.
     
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    The actual testing was done in 1952 - see Keith Farr's article in the latest Railway Magazine - with the Bulletin published a year or two later.
     
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    Is this the one you want?

    ALS3/75/B
    NRM have a copy. See
    http://www.nrm.org.uk/~/media/Files/NRM/PDF/archiveslists2012/other/Technical archive list.pdf
    Page 85
    713 TEST LNER 8 London & North Eastern
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    Locomotive Test Reports Class V2 2-6-2; A2/1 4-6-2
    (Thompson) Comparative
    trials 1946
    ALS3/75/B

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