{"id":8248,"date":"2024-09-02T01:30:29","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/lets-make-a-train-1\/"},"modified":"2024-09-02T01:30:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T01:30:29","slug":"lets-make-a-train-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/camcab.co.uk\/lets-make-a-train-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s Make A Train (1)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oh? Output Of Oodles Of Owners!<\/span><\/p>\n The building of the new London Road bridge …<\/p>\n But Litchurch Lane has a metaphorical bogie brake van packed full of history.<\/p><\/div>\n The Midland’s two main lines (RED<\/span>) split at Derby with one going to Birmingham and Bristol and the other to Leicester and London. To the north of the London tracks was developed the Loco works. It was huge.<\/p>\n It made loadsa locos.<\/p>\n Between London Road and Osmaston Road, the Wagon and Carriage Works was developed. It was equally huge.<\/p>\n There is very little left of the loco works today, being handed over to light industry and housing. But the carriage works remains and is still producing carriages!<\/p>\n Passenger coaches are no longer built on a massive steel underframe …<\/p>\n … with a wooden frame for the body …<\/p>\n … and wood for the cladding.<\/p>\n Later, the cladding and then the frame became steel; and the railway carriage that many of us know and loved evolved.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n In 1996 the works became part of Adtranz<\/span>.<\/p>\n In 2001 Adtranz was taken over by Bombardier<\/span> …<\/p>\n … pronounced Bombard – ee – eh and not Bombard – eer as we might say in English military terminology.\u00a0<\/p><\/div>\n A reminder, for those who may have forgotten, that the “TO<\/span>M<\/span>” of Alstom derives from\u00a0British Thomson-Houston<\/span>, a large former UK electrical engineering company.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n … and the main entrance to Alstom Derby.<\/p>\n A wander further along the lane reveals another barriered entrance …<\/p>\n … and, in the far distance, a couple of rail vehicles that the works has just completed.<\/p><\/div>\n And it is to these trains that we shall turn in tomorrow’s possibly abbreviated blog.<\/p><\/div>\n