Coach drivers in Chunnel train tests
1st December 1972, Page 31
1st December 1972
Page 31
Page 31, 1st December 1972
— Coach drivers in Chunnel train tests
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• Coach drivers, together with motorists and pedestrians, are assisting the Transport and Road Research Laboratory in a study of the design of trains for the proposed Channel Tunnel.
Experiments are being held at the Crowthorne, Berks, laboratory where mockups of single and double-deck ferry trains have been assembled to evaluate vehicle loading and unloading performance and passenger mobility.
These researches are detailed in two -eports (obtainable from the TRRL, Crowborne, Berks), LR 435, Channel tunnel; rehicular movement in proposed ferry rains, and LR 436, Channel tunnel; )edestrian movements in proposed ferry rains.