To facilitate examination at night, L and N E Railway has installed, as experiment, light tight tunnel in which units arriving at particular depot on East Coast main line can be speedily and thoroughly checked over under favorable conditions of lighting without risk of light being visible externally; tunnel is 80 ft long with double doors at each end and single line of track running through it. (See also Engineering v 157 n 4081 Mar 31 1944 p 246; Engineer v 177 n 4601 Mar 17 1944 p 216-7; Eng News-Rec v 133 n 2 July 13 1944 p 51)
Locomotive examination tunnel
Ry Gaz
Railway Gazette and Railway News ; 80 , n 20
1944
2 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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