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I see the GCR are re-creating one, project X.
Project ‘X’ – the Diesel Brake Tender Project
"Members of Railway Vehicle Preservations TPO crew are in the process of constructing an item of rolling stock that failed to enter preservation, despite the last vehicles having been withdrawn from traffic in the early 1980s, namely a Diesel Brake Tender. RVP member Phil Stanbridge initially came up with the idea while some vehicles at the Great Central Railway were about to be scrapped after having been purchased for spare parts. One of the vehicles was set aside for the project, while a feasibility study and then design work was undertaken. The project became known as “Project X” while this work was being undertaken, as the team wanted to keep it quiet until all hurdles had been overcome. Once proven that it was feasible work started on the vehicle, which will be numbered B964122, the next number following on from the originals. As all the original vehicles came from LMS or LNER descendents and this conversion is from a BR Mark 1 a new diagram number is being created to accommodate the design, this being 1/559, which would have been the next number in the B.R. wagon diagram series."
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Philip.
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