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10th November 1979
Cravens class 105 56120 is the rear car of the 12.10 Bletchley - Bedford. The train has just left Stewartby and it is about to pass the smoking chimneys of the London Brick brick works. The air is full of the distinctive tang of bricks being baked during the cold afternoon of 10th November 1979. Geoff Dowling.
14th February 1981
The wooden platform at Stewartby has only a Tilley lamp to combat the gloom, it should soon be lit on this cold February afternoon. Two passengers are waiting for the fuggy warmth of an old DMU, 50391 and 56148 will soon be rasping towards Bedford with the 15.10 service from Bletchley on 14 February 1981. The building is the boarded up LNWR crossing keeper's house, the keeper now travels to work by road, on the crossing side of his hut there is a ticket window beside the door. Geoff Dowling.
14th February 1981
As the winter's day draws towards dusk 56120 & 50393 are near Stewartby with the 16.10 Bletchley- Bedford on 14 February 1981. The day was cold grey and windless and the aroma from the brickworks hung in the frosty air. Geoff Dowling.
12th March 1983
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.
12th March 1983
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
M51618 + 59645 + 59615 + 51592 at Stewartby on March 12th, 1983, with the LCGB Class 127 Farewell railtour. Stuart Pearce.
12th March 1983
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.
12th March 1983
M51618 with the LCGB Class 127 Farewell Railtour at Stewartby on 12 March 1983. Alistair Ness.
12th March 1983
The LCGB Class 127 Farewell Railtour at Stewartby on 12 March 1983 formed 51618 + 59645 + 59615 + 51592. Alistair Ness.
7th April 1990
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.
7th April 1990
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.
22nd June 1991
An NSE-liveried Class 108 at Stewartby on 22 June 1991. Closest seems to be 51914, with Bedford Midland on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.
22nd June 1991
A Class 108 DMU at Stewartby on 22 June 1991. Closest seems to be 54194. Stuart Mackay Collection.
12th October 1992
Set: L231
Class 108 set L231 (presumably 54271 + 51909) in Network Southeast (original) livery at Stewartby station on 12-10-1992. Doug Pritchard Collection.
5th June 1993
Set: L123
Bubble car 55023 enters Stewartby with a service for Bletchley, 5th June 93. 54A South Dock.
March 1994
Set: L123
Retro-green bubble 55023 at Forders Sidings, Stewartby's outer distant on the Marston Vale line, in March 1994. Nicholas Youngman.
26th November 1994
Set: L123
55023 seen at Stewartby on the 26th November 1994. Ian Buck.
9th July 1998
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.
1st April 1999
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
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.
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