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Class 116 DMU at Leamington Spa

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Tyseley DMU set TS553 sits in the platform at Leamington Spa. The vehicles are presumably 53878 (116), 59606 (127) and 55000 (122).

Nicholas notes: Leamington had a tendency to run the empty stock 3 car DMU of a Moor St set and the Stratford bubble out onto the up main toward Fenny when a xcountry was due, and then separately use a shunt disc to bring them in behind the express - providing a same platform interchange instead of the subway.

This is not allowed any more - Call Ons 'are for joining' and shunts onto occupied passenger trains are somewhat discouraged - except where there's a third rail - despite stairs being easily the worst passenger hazard.

In those days, the up bay wasn't signalled for Main move down departures so the bubble had to shuffle across anyway.

Class 116
53878
TS553
Leamington Spa
11th October 1984

Nicholas T Smith
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