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 | Oliver Bulleid's Double Decker Disaster Train | | by Charles Moorhen | | published on May 5, 2009 | Oliver Bulleid's Double Decker electric train, designed to cure the chronic overcrowding on the London to Dartford line in the late 1950's, and was a ghastly failure, is seen undergoing restoration work at the Northampton & Lamport Railway in the 1990's.
This single coach is believed to be the only survivor of two 3-car trains.
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