Railway Technical Centre

The Railway Technical Centre (RTC) in London Road, Derby, England, was built by the British Railways Board in the early 1960s to be its technical headquarters. British Rail was able to announce that "The Railway Technical Centre at Derby is the largest railway research complex in the world."

It was one of British Rail's Departments that wern't connected to the movement of passengers or freight.The RTC centralised most of the technical services provided by the regional Chief Mechanical & Electrical Engineers (CM&EE) to form the Department of Mechanical & Electrical Engineering (DM&EE). In addition, it housed the newly formed British Rail Research Division which reported directly to the Board. The latter is well known for its work on the experimental Advanced Passenger Train (APT-E). At that early stage this was a concept vehicle, and in time the DM&EE applied the new knowledge to existing practice in the design of the High Speed Train (HST), the later prototype APT-P and other high-speed vehicles.

Rolling Stock Developed
High Speed Train (HST), Later Class 43

Advanced Passenger Train (APT), Later Class 370

Test Coaches
The RTC converted many Coaches for diffrent resons. For exampleundefined:

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Non-Railway Developments
Although being the Railway Technical Centre, the RTC also developed the Mag-Lev. A specialist test track and 'loco' was created at Derby to test the Mag-Lev ready for installation at Birmingham Airport.undefined