Crash test - Old Dalby test track - Nuclear flask test, 1984

On 17 July 1984, Old Dalby test track was used to test the integrity of flasks used to transport nuclear fuel elements by rail. A Class 46 diesel locomotive (No. 46009), weighing 140 tonnes and pulling three carriages, was intentionally crashed at about 160 km/h into a pre-arranged, derailed, flask-carrying wagon

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