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Short Summary
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Description
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Data
- Film ID:
- 2557.14
- Media URN:
- 68727
- Group:
- Unissued unused
- Archive:
- British Pathé
- Issue Date:
- 1951
- Sound:
- Mute
- HD Format:
- Available on request
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Duration:
- 00:00:37:00
- Time in/Out:
- 01:35:06:00 / 01:35:43:00
- Canister:
- UN 2370 F
Busbloke says
The Brockhouse Road Train: “The idea was taken up by J. Brockhouse & Co. Ltd. and the Executive Engineer of the Company,. Mr. R. E. Hagley, produced designs for a locomotive, vehicles, and track. The system was called the "Uniline” and a demonstration was given at Mayfield in Sussex, where the experimental track was built, on 6 Apri1 1951. The track, as in the Indian trials, was some 3 ft. wide and the stock had a similar guiding system with vertical rollers at front and rear. All vehicles were fitted with pneumatic tyres. In the course of the demonstration on the half-mile track loads of 21 tons were hauled up a gradient of 1 in 15 at a speed of 41/2 m.p.h. Drawings lent to us by J. Brockhouse & Co. Ltd. show the locomotive used to have been, in railway parlance, a 2-4-2 with a 90-b.h.p. 4-cyl. diesel engine. It was 15 ft. 9 in. over the buffers, which were single and central, and the wheelbase was 10 ft; the leading and trailing wheels had tyres 24 in. x 7 in. and the driving wheel…