diff --git a/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/CMakeLists.txt b/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/CMakeLists.txt
index 5ca21f23ced80636a14402957aa492f1a0cf7e1f..3a9761d10dbbc137a4fa62345d4e01fbc2947c44 100644
--- a/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -62,10 +62,6 @@ datamodel_run_test (xAODTestReadRenameMT
                     DEPENDS xAODTestWrite)
 datamodel_run_test (xAODTestReadFilter DEPENDS xAODTestWrite)
 datamodel_run_test (xAODTestReadFilterRead DEPENDS xAODTestReadFilter)
-datamodel_run_test (xAODTestReadARA
-                    COMMAND python
-                    ARG ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/share/xAODTestReadARA_t.py
-                    DEPENDS xAODTestWrite)
 datamodel_run_test (xAODRootTestRead
                     COMMAND python
                     ARG ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/share/xAODRootTestRead_t.py
@@ -145,9 +141,6 @@ datamodel_run_test (CondReadWrite)
 # xAODTestReadFilterRead
 # reads xaoddata_filt.root
 #
-# xAODTestReadARA
-# reads xaoddata.root
-#
 # xAODRootTestRead
 # reads xaoddata.root
 # writes xaodroot.root
diff --git a/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/share/xAODTestReadARA_t.py b/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/share/xAODTestReadARA_t.py
deleted file mode 100644
index db0704d15668a9526f1e75d644e71b4e8199d70e..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/Control/DataModelTest/DataModelRunTests/share/xAODTestReadARA_t.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-from __future__ import print_function
-import ROOT
-import cppyy
-import AthenaROOTAccess.transientTree
-
-cppyy.loadDictionary("libDataModelTestDataCommonDict")
-cppyy.loadDictionary("libDataModelTestDataReadDict")
-ROOT.DMTest.B
-ROOT.DMTest.setPluginLibrary ('_PERS_DMTest::HAuxContainer_v1',
-                              'libDataModelTestDataReadCnvPoolCnv.so')
-ROOT.DMTest.setPluginLibrary ('_PERS_DMTest::HVec_v1',
-                              'libDataModelTestDataReadCnvPoolCnv.so')
-ROOT.DMTest.setPluginLibrary ('_PERS_DMTest__HAuxContainer_v1',
-                              'libDataModelTestDataReadCnvPoolCnv.so')
-ROOT.DMTest.setPluginLibrary ('_PERS_DataVector<DMTest::H_v1>',
-                              'libDataModelTestDataReadCnvPoolCnv.so')
-
-f = ROOT.TFile.Open ('xaoddata.root')
-assert f.IsOpen()
-
-
-from AthenaCommon.Include import Include
-include = Include(show = False)
-include('DataModelRunTests/xAODRootTest.py')
-
-
-tt = AthenaROOTAccess.transientTree.makeTree(f)
-reader = xAODTestRead()
-for i in range(tt.GetEntries()):
-    tt.GetEntry(i)
-    print ('\nEntry', i)
-    reader.execute(tt)
-    print ('gvec')
-    vec = getattr (tt, 'gvec')
-    for g in vec:
-        dump_auxdata (g)
-        print('')
-    print()
-    
-