Set TS702

These formations have been noted:

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn

24th May 1986

Still in BR blue livery, Tyseley Class 116 DMU set TS702 (presumably 53867 + 59372 + 53920) sits in the bay platform - platform 4 - at Hereford station on 24th May 1986. John Crooks.

24th May 1986

Still in BR blue livery, Tyseley class 116 DMU set TS702 (presumably 53867 + 59372 + 53920) heads into Hereford from Shelwick Junction with a train from Birmingham on 24th May 1986. John Crooks.

7th June 1986

Tyseley's class 116 unit T702 (53867 and presumably 59372 + 53920) stands in platform 3 at Stratford-upon-Avon on 7 June 1986 with the 08.30 to Birmingham Moor Street and before the driver had returned to the cab after shunting the train from platform 1 and changed the lights to white. At this time several DMUs were stabled overnight in the platforms here as the station office was a crew signing-on point with its own allocation of drivers and guards. A class 121 single car unit is just visible behind T702 waiting to shunt into platform 1 and work Leamington Spa trains. In the winter the units were left with their engines idling all night, possibly because they wouldn't have started on a frosty morning, and a cloud of dense stinking diesel exhaust often hung over the station area. Peter Tandy.

8th June 1986

TS702 (53867 + 59372 + 53920) at Tyseley, Sunday 8 June 1986. Mel Holley.

8th June 1986

Tyseley Class 116 DMU set TS702 (53867 + 59372 + 53920) departs Stratford-upon-Avon with a Birmingham service on 8 June 1986. Keith Miller.

11th June 1986

Class 116 Derby 3-car DMU, Tyseley set 702, 53920+59372+53867 all in rail blue at Birmingham Moor Street 11-6-86 The set had been transferred up from Stratford and was the only rail blue set in the Birmingham area. Never repainted, it was withdrawn in these colours a couple of years later. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

1st July 1986

In 1986 I lived within sight of the railway line at Stratford-upon-Avon and from my kitchen window on 1 July 1986 saw the last all-blue class 116 (set TS702, presumably 53867 + 59372 + 53920) arrive from Birmingham Moor Street to form the 08.00 departure back to the West Midlands. I grabbed a camera and asked the signaller, a good friend, if I might take a shot from his window as the unit crossed the Stratford-upon-Avon canal alongside a good show of elderflower on the embankment. A class 121 single unit had fortunately for me just gone towards the station with an arrival to leave a few minutes later as the 08.12 to Leamington Spa. I didn't have time to wait for this to leave as it was time to head off to work in town. Peter Tandy.

1st July 1986

After work on 1 July 1986 I kept an eye open for T702, the last all-blue class 116 DMU, to appear again at Stratford-upon-Avon. The diagrams weren't straightforward for any particular unit and involved trips over several different routes. This unit had clearly switched to the Leamington Spa line as it arrived at Stratford ready to form the 18.35 service back to that town. I had a word with the signalman on the 2nd shift and established that he was happy for me to take a lineside shot as the train left the station. The signal in the foreground is the lower quadrant controlling the exit from the Cold Store Siding by then used only for the overnight stabling of stock (and failed units awaiting rescue). TS702 is presumably formed 53867 + 59372 + 53920. Peter Tandy.

12th July 1986

Class 116 53920, set number T702 (presumably with 59372 + 53867), is seen at Tyseley on 12.07.1986 in all over blue livery. This had been transferred from down south and was unusually still in all over blue. Andy Cole.

3rd September 1986

TS702 - 53920 + 59372 + 53867 - seen in the sunshine under dark skies in Leamington Spa station on Wednesday 3/9/86. Mel Holley.

4th October 1986

The last surviving all blue class 116 set, T702, formed of 53867, 59372 and 53920 looked a bit scruffy when I photographed it on a Four Oaks service leaving Longbridge on 4 October 1986 with the long-gone British Leyland Motor Works in the background. Peter Tandy.

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