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Set 914

The set number was suffixed with a small "A" or "B" which corresponded with the car branded for Newspapers (A) or Express Parcels (B)

These formations have been noted:

55974 55984 Listed at Longsight - Summer 1986 - Parcels
Class 127 DMU at Birmingham New Street

1986

Class 127 parcel conversion 55974 (ex-51642) seen in Birmingham New Street station sometime in 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 127 DMU at Manchester Victoria

27th February 1986

I didn't see or photograph many class 127 Diesel Parcel Units but do have this shot of set 914, formed of 55974 + 55984 shortly after it had passed through Manchester Victoria on 27 February 1986. Irritatingly, this one one of a small handful of slides that weren't taken in sun during the whole period I was here, on the platform of the former Exchange Station. A class 120 unit is about to enter the terminus platforms at Victoria and the end of a journey from Blackpool. Peter Tandy.

Class 127 DMU at Croft Street Sidings, Preston

30th March 1986

Former Bedford-St Pancras Class 127 DMU cars, converted for parcels use with roller shutter doors and numbered M55984 & M55974 (914), were stabled at Croft Street Sidings adjacent to Fylde Junction and the Preston PSB on March 30th 1986. There had been 11 x 2-car parcel units formed in 1985 (sets 910-920) utilising redundant and modified Class 127 DMBS vehicles. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 127 DMU at an unknown location

circa mid-1986

A Class 127 parcel DMU with 55984 closest, location unknown, circa 1986. Paul Redmond.

Class 127 DMU at Crewe

20th August 1986

Class 127 DPU 55984, set 914 presumably paired with 55985, at Crewe on 20 August 1986. Dave Warby.

Class 127 DMU at Northampton

2nd May 1987

Two Class 127 parcel units pass though Northampton on 2 May 1987. Lewis Bevan.

Class 127 DMU at Tyseley

28th June 1987

Class 127 55984, set number 914, is seen stabled outside the Factory at Tyseley on 28.06.1987. This was converted from 51639. Andy Cole.

Class 127 DMU at Normanton-on-Soar

20th February 1989

Class 127 parcels DMU set 914 at Normanton-on-Soar on 20th February 1989. Closest is thought to be 55984. Andrew Walker.

Class 127 DMU at Tyseley

1st April 1989

Class 127 55984, set number 914, is seen inside the factory at Tyseley while undergoing repairs on 01.04.1989. This car was rebuilt from 51639, from a passenger car into a parcels carrying car, complete with roller doors. These sets normally kept to formation, but 55984's partner 55974 was scrapped early on, and on this day it was partnered with 55971. Andy Cole.

Class 127 DMU at Longsight depot

6th May 1989

Class 127 parcel vehicles M55984 + M55980, M55983 + M55973 and M55981 sit behind 03170 (the last ever Swindon works overhaul) and a brake van on Longsight TMD, 6-5-89. It was just over a week before the whole fleet of Class 127 DPUs were withdrawn, but these five were already out of use and used as a source of spare parts. Kevin Dowd.


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