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circa April 1966
Vehicle: 50943
M50943 on Patricroft shed reputedly with rear end damage, side by side with Standard 5 73140, circa April 1966. Ian McDonald Collection.
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A Class 108 power / trailer set takes the Monton line at Patricroft Four Bridges Junction (Eccles in the background). Ian McDonald Collection.
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Two 3-car Class 104 units pass Patricroft Station box on an up working. Ian McDonald Collection.
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A Liverpool bound Trans-Pennine set passes an 8F on a ballast working at Patricroft. Date unknown. Ian McDonald Collection.
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A Met-Camm set at the head of a long DMU formation passing Patricroft. Date unknown. Ian McDonald.
5th October 1968
Vehicle: 56014
A Class 114 set on the RCTS / REC "Doncaster Decoy" tour seen at Bullcroft Junction (the old HB&GC Joint) on 5/10/68. The power car is 50014, leading is thought to be 56014. John Law.
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The driver looks a little bored driving his Class 101 and Class 104 formation past Patricroft depot towards Bangor. Undated. What was the significance of the '874' in the cab window? Steve Davies Collection.
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Two Etches Park Class 120s seen from a passing train at Nottingham Eastcroft. Date unknown. David Faircloth.
21st September 1961
Vehicle: 56146
M56146 leads a two-car Cravens set, which has just passed another of the same type, with a Leicester service at Croft on September 21st, 1961. Michael Mensing.
June 1983
Vehicle: 51378 Set: L403
Class 117 L403 (presumably 51378 + 59488 + 51336) heads east at Crofton on June 1983. Steve Davies Collection.
4th July 1989
Vehicle: 51101 Set: T327
51101/59444/51071 at Ryecroft Junction, Walsall on 04/07/89. The service is the the 10.48 arrival at Walsall from Hednesford. Steve Jones.
4th July 1989
Vehicle: 51071 Set: T327
51071/59444/51101 at Ryecroft Junction, Walsall on 04/07/89. The service is the 10.48 arrival at Walsall from Hednesford. Steve Jones.
29th November 1986
Vehicle: 53493
Having been used on a service to Blackpool South, Class 104, M53493 was stabled with several other sets of first generation DMU's at Croft Street Sidings, adjacent to Preston power box on November 29th 1986. The sidings and power box are situated on the site of the former Preston MPd that closed in 1961 following a roof fire in 1960. Dominating the skyline is St Walburges Church dating frpm 1854 and designed by Joseph Hansom of Hansom Cab fame, it has the tallest parish church spire in England at 309ft. Martyn Hilbert.
1968
A mixed-livery Calder Valley set heads south on the Bolton to Manchester line past Agecroft Power Station in 1968. Steve Davies Collection.
23rd March 1986
Vehicle: 55980 Set: 910
Stood alongside milepost 0 on what was the old Preston & Lancaster route, a former Bedford - St Pancras Class 127 Diesel-Hydraulic DMU, converted to a Parcels Unit complete with roller-shutter doors, was stabled for the weekend in Croft Street Sidings adjacent to Preston PSB on March 23rd 1986. Formed of cars 55980 & 55970 (Set 910), the pair was one of 11 similar units that had been formed/converted in 1985. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd March 1986
Vehicle: 55966 Set: 920
Former Bedford-St Pancras Class 127 Driving cars now with roller shutter doors as M55966 + M55967. The unit was stabled at Croft Street Sidings adjacent to the Preston Power Box on March 2nd 1986. One of 11 similar units converted, Set 920 was finished in retro BR Green livery. The nearest car in this view had been turned-out in green for its last period of passenger service when allocated to Cricklewood Depot. The unit was adorned with a plaque commemorating "The First Unit, 1,250,000 miles, Bedford-St Pancras". Following replacement by new Class 317 EMU's, car M51591 was selected for the National Collection at York, but when BR were short of one car to complete the 11 Parcel Units, the NRM handed the car back for conversion. As a consolation the finished unit (920) was finished in BR Green. Martyn Hilbert.
19th December 1987
Vehicle: 54247
Almost at twilight on a dull Winter afternoon, the Carlisle allocated Class 108 two-car DMU in retro BR green livery, formed of cars M54247 & M53964, was stabled in Croft Street Sidings adjacent to the Preston Power Box on a bleak December 19th 1987. Martyn Hilbert.
28th August 1988
Vehicle: 51372 Set: T309
DMU's new & old were stood in Croft Street Sidings adjacent to Preston Power Box on August 28th 1988. Left to right, a shiny new Metro-Cammell built Class 156 Sprinter 156430, with Blue/Grey liveried BRCW Class 104 M53534 stood alongside, and on the right, a Pressed Steel built Class 117, with DMBS M51372 nearest the camera. Martyn Hilbert.
3rd May 1987
Vehicle: 54027
The rare appearance of a Class 114 'Derby Heavyweight' two-car DMU, formed of cars E54027 & E53019, stabled in Croft Street Sidings at Preston on May 3rd 1987. The following day it worked a Blackpool North - Manchester Victoria service. This was the period when faults on relatively new Class 142's were causing the cobbling together/transfer and reinstatement of first generation DMU sets, prior to the introduction of Class 150/2 Sprinters in sufficient quantities. Martyn Hilbert.
October 1986
Class 114 DMUs in Eastcroft Sidings, Nottingham, in October 1986. Apparently the DMU is parked so far down the siding as it was a shorter walk to the 'Magpie' pub. This area is now the DMU Servicing Shed for East Midlands trains. David Page.
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