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1st April 1999
Vehicle: 51341 Set: 117704
One of the last duties of what are generally referred to as "First Generation dmus" was the Bedford to Bletchley line. Here, a Pressed Steel class 117, reduced to a 2 car set and numbered 117704 (51341 closest, presumably with 51383) approaches Stewartby station, bound for Bletchley on April 1, 1999. Mike Dean.
25th May 1999
Vehicle: 55027 Set: 121027
Pressed Steel class 121 'Bubble Cars' Nos.55027 'Bletchley TMD' (in Silverlink livery) and 55031 'Leslie Crabbe'(in Network Southeast livery) rasp away from Stewartby station forming a Bedford to Bletchley service on 25 May 1999. This was meant to be a Fuji colour transparency, but at the end of the day when I rewound the film and opened the film back I discovered that I had been using Agfa Scala B&W transparency film for the whole of the mostly sunny day. Such were the trials and tribulations of using film cameras! Gordon Edgar.
4th October 1999
Vehicle: 55031 Set: 121031
On 4 October 1999 an early evening Bletchley to Bedford service, with two Pressed Steel class 121 Twin 'bubble cars' (55031 leading), gets underway from the Stewartby station stop just as the sun finds a gap in the clouds at the right moment. The signal gantry was on the lean! Gordon Edgar.
5th June 1993
Vehicle: 55023 Set: L123
Bubble car 55023 enters Stewartby with a service for Bletchley, 5th June 93. 54A South Dock.
12th March 1983
Vehicle: 51618
On 12th March 1983 the LCGB ran a farewell tour for the Hydraulic DMUs which used to operate out of St. Pancras and which were being displaced by the Bedford electrification, this picture was taken at Stewartby. Stuart Pearce.
12th March 1983
Vehicle: 51618
M51618 + 59645 + 59615 + 51592 at Stewartby on March 12th, 1983, with the LCGB Class 127 Farewell railtour. Stuart Pearce.
26th November 1994
Vehicle: 55023 Set: L123
55023 seen at Stewartby on the 26th November 1994. Ian Buck.
March 1994
Vehicle: 55023 Set: L123
Retro-green bubble 55023 at Forders Sidings, Stewartby's outer distant on the Marston Vale line, in March 1994. Nicholas Youngman.
12th March 1983
Vehicle: 51618
This is the Branch Line Society (BLS) Class 127 Farewell Railtour from London St Pancras which visited Bedford, Oxford and Marylebone. Formation was 51618/59645/59615/51592 (from the Six Bells Junction website). This has a lunch stop at Quainton Road from where departure was delayed while some emergency welding was carried out. Derby Works built the units, which entered service in 1959. They had hydraulic transmission with Rolls Royce engines. This location is Stewartby, on the Bedford to Bletchley line. Jeremy Chapter.
9th July 1998
Vehicle: 51400 Set: L724
Set L724, with car 51400 being the trailing vehicle is seen at Stewartby Green Lanes Halt on 09 07 1998, once bustling with the number of labourers for the numerous brick works in the area. Little known fact is that the level crossing had the first bi-lingual signage installed in the middle 1950's in the country - English and Italian, so that the workers could correctly observe to crossing instructions! Paul Fleet.
7th April 1990
Vehicle: 51914
A 2 car class 108 unit with vehicles 51914 + 54279 is pictured about to stop at Stewartby station on the Bedford to Bletchley line on 7 April 1990. The crossing here was still hand operated by a crossing keeper at this time which indicated that the road here wasn't especially busy. Peter Tandy.
12th March 1983
Vehicle: 51618
M51618 with the LCGB Class 127 Farewell Railtour at Stewartby on 12 March 1983. Alistair Ness.
12th March 1983
Vehicle: 51618
The LCGB Class 127 Farewell Railtour at Stewartby on 12 March 1983 formed 51618 + 59645 + 59615 + 51592. Alistair Ness.
12th March 1983
Vehicle: 51618
The Class 127 Farewell railtour on 12th March 1983 took a unit (M51618 + 59645 + 59615 + 51592) from St Pancras to Bedford then across to Oxford, and back to Marylebone via a break at Quainton Road. A photostop was made at Stewartby as we headed from Bedford to Oxford, and what seemed like the entire passenger contingent alighted at the small platform. Murray Liston.
7th April 1990
Vehicle: 54279
The line between Bletchley and Bedford was under the control of mechanical signalling in 1990. On 7 April 2-car class 108 unit 54279 + 51914 arrive at Stewartby from Bletchley with the chimneys of the brickworks prominent in the background Peter Tandy.
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