Rugby testing plant on Pathe News

[penninefilms]

What a wonder full film.

[basstrom188]

Waldenhouse just think probably none of those engineers had a university degree. All that great engineering without a single degree in Media Studies from the University of Much Binding

[waldenhouse]

"Scientific marvel of the age" - Yes it certainly was - oh, and not one of those men had glasses, safety goggles, hard hats, or flourescent jackets - and they were the engineers who built this great Country and made it what it was - Great......once upon a time. pookleburger has ever right to be angry!

[pookleburger]

Awesome, beautiful A4 Pacific, Doncaster engineering at it's best - It makes me very angry to look at this and think how Britain lead the world in engineering . Look at us now, we manufacture fuck all, all we do is provide financial services and run up massive debt. Southern softy tossers in their ivory towers, sitting in London, thinking nothing exists North of Watford gap, playing with the money originally earned by the engineering businesses, steel mills and coal mines of the North. Rant over

[waldenhouse]

@pookleburger

"Scientific marvel of the age" - Yes it certainly was - oh, and not one of those men had glasses, safety goggles, hard hats, or flourescent jackets - and they were the engineers who built this great Country and made it what it was - Great......once upon a time. pookleburger has ever right to be angry!

[4beatlefans]

Wow! Amazing; I never thought I'd see that. There was another similar plant - at Swindon I think, but didn't one have the engine drive the rollers and the other (strangely) had rollers that drove the engine? Can anyone help? Thanks for posting this piece of railway history - truly amazing to any of us amateur students of railway operation.

[34Bbridgeboy]

Yes you are right about that - at Rugby the engine drove the rollers but at Swindon it was the other way round originally. However I believe the Swindon test plant was later modified to work the same way as the Rugby one.

[593OLYMPUS]

A real pity that Rugby's testing plant isn't still in existance. Given the greater than ever arguments between fans of various loco classes, a static test plant would have answered so many questions.

Aside from that, tne sheer impressiveness of a loco at 100mph - stationary,with all that weight of rods etc thrashing about in front of you,would have been easy to get paying enthusiasts to come and watch from all over the world. Great video - hope to see more.

[04clemea]

I don't know ?

[Bigaid]

Great video, does anyone eles have footage of rugby testing plant?