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Set C347

These formations have been noted:

50084 59373 50126 Noted 03/09/74 - at Cardiff1
50084 59373 50126 Noted 13/07/75 - on 2C72 (unknown service, included Cardiff-Barry Island section) with C327
50084 59373 50126 Noted 26/08/75 - On Cardiff Canton depot1

Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown

Class 116 DMU at Radyr

15th April 1972

An arriving DMU and Canton's D6885 at Radyr Station on the 15th of April 1972. The set number seems to be C347, and so the vehicles are presumably 50084 + 59373 + 50126. A comment added to the image on flickr by 'br2975' notes: "The DMU is taking the Radyr Jct to Radyr Quarry Jct line through the yard, then the former Penarth Harbour & Dock Railway route to Penarth Curve North Jct. This was normally freight only, except for diversions, and specials such as Mystery Trips from Rhondda (Treherbert), Cynon (Aberdare HL) and rarely, Taff (Merthyr) valleys. My notes suggest the DMU was a footex en-route to Ninian Park Halt in connection with Cardiff City v Carlisle Utd. (City won 3-1). Sometimes the ECS would run from Ninian Park and stable in Radyr Yard during the matches." The KDH Archive.

Class 116 DMU at Pontypridd

circa July 1972

Two Class 116 DMUs in Pontypridd station. Closest is set C347, 50126 and presumably 59373 + 50084. The slide process date was July 1972. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 116 DMU at Cardiff

1975

Wet day at Cardiff in 1975. A class 37 and an 08 busy themselves with parcels vans, whilst the inevitable "Valleys Set" DMU (set C347) departs for Penarth. John Crooks.


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