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This picture was taken in the early Autumn of 1985 on a misty day with 3 Tyseley class 116s DMUs adding to the general murk at Saltley, Birmingham. The train was a Birmingham New Street to Skegness service and I assume that this was a regular timetabled working that would cease from the September timetable change. The buffer stops between the two running lines on the left mark the rear end of the headshunt used by banking locomotives required to give heavy freights a shove up the bank near St Andrews. This was a daily sight when loaded MGRs ran this way from East Midlands coalfields to Didcot Power Station which were banked on the approach to Bordesley Junction.
Type: Class 116 Vehicle: Unknown Location: Saltley Date: 1985
Photographer: Peter Tandy Views: 255 View image source
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