Hornby R40009 BR RTC RDB 975428 Laboratory 10 Mk.1 BSO Research Division Blue & Red Livery OO

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The Railway Technical Centre (RTC) was created by the British Railways Board in the early 1960s as its' technical and scientific research centre. The RTC centralised most of the technical services provided by regional Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineers into the Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering and housed the newly formed Rail Research Division. The latter is well known for its work on the experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT), while the DM&EE combined the emerging technological advancements with existing practice to create the diesel powered High Speed Train, or InterCity 125.
While the APT project was less than successful the technology developed was deployed in the InterCity 225 project, becoming the class 91 electric locomotives, French TGV and its derivatives (class 373 Eurostar and Thalys trains).

The RTC was for many years a world leader in the scientific examination and research into rail technology and dynamics. Years of testing under varying conditions of the wheel-rail interface and pantograph-contact wire interactions have led to a greatly expanded understanding of these factors and the automation of track examination, such as by the high speed New Measurement Train.

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