Coaches incorporating new features in passenger accommodation will operate on "Talisman" King's Cross to Edinburgh service of British Railways during summer of 1964; coaches now forming Project X P64 consist of three second class open saloons and two compartment coaches, and three first class compartment coaches; bodies are of standard shell and underframe pattern, but future vehicles will be of integral construction; features of different units are described, and include automatic heating and ventilating unit mounted on each vehicle underframe, seats of glass fiber construction, wide entrances on each side, etc.
Prototype main-line rolling stock
Engineer
Engineer ; 217 , n 5654
1964
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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