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A Cravens set at Bedford St Johns. Undated. Steve Davies Collection.
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A Cravens set at Bedford St Johns. Undated. Steve Davies Collection.
circa 1964
A down Midland Pullman passing Bedford around 1964, a quad set (later Class 127) in the foreground; the coaling tower at 15D can be seen in the background. These Blue Pullmans ran between St Pancras and Manchester Central from 1960 until transferred to the Western Region in 1966. Kevin Lane Collection.
circa 1970
Set: CD618
A Bed-Pan set at Bedford Midland Road circa 1970. Note the set number in the left cab window. John Law.
September 1971
A Metro-Cammell set waits at the stripped down Bedford St Johns station in September 1971. The vehicles are presumably M56055 + M50203 - the only Class 101 vehicles allocated to Bletchley at the time. Kevin Lane.
circa 1972
A Cravens DMU in Bedford St Johns station circa 1972. John Law.
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A Cravens set at Bedford St Johns station in the early 1970s. John Law.
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A Class 105 at Bedford St Johns in the early 1970s. Tony Wilkins.
July 1974
A Cravens dmu at the old terminus at Bedford St Johns in July 1974. Tony Watson.
17th August 1974
A Class 127 Bed-Pan unit in Bedford Midland station after the rain on 17th August 1974. 54A South Dock.
1976
A view of the 'Marston Vale Line' from the hot summer of 1976. At Bedford St. Johns the main station buildings and water tower had been demolished by 1971 and it was a terminus halt on the truncated line to Cambridge, in a wide and desolate open space. In 1984 a replacement station was opened in the former freight yard at the north end of the triangle (above and to the right of the DMU), enabling services to continue to Bedford Midland. This station site was then abandoned and the site has now been reclaimed by nature. Photographer - Roy Burt. Gordon Edgar Collection.
June 1976
A St Pancras-bound 4-car Class 127 DMU waiting at the old Bedford Midland station in June 1976. Kevin Lane.
28th June 1976
A Rolls-Royce powered Class 127 DMU sits in Bedford station with a service from St Pancras as two young spotters watch 45128 pass on the down "Master Cutler". Taken on June 28, 1976, shortly before the station was rebuilt. Lewis Bevan.
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A Class 127 DMU comes out the sidings at Bedford to form a service to St Pancras, date unknown. Phillip Malin.
5th February 1977
A Class 127 DMU at Bedford on 5th February 1977. 54A South Dock.
21st April 1977
A Cravens 2-car DMU arrives at Bedford St Johns station, working in from Bletchley on 21 April 1977. The LNWR signal box was damaged by fire later in the year and was subsequently rebuilt using the top of a Midland Region type 15 design. Leading is thought to be M50392 which had a C3T overhaul at Derby Litchurch Lane dated 10th March 1977. Kevin Lane.
26th June 1977
The beautiful old 1859 Midland Railway station seen here was demolished to make way for a modern station 200 yards away in 1978 when the line was electrified from Bedford to St Pancras (the BedPan line). This was taken on the morning of Sunday 26th June 1977 and the dmu seemed to be stabled in the platform rather than on a London service or perhaps just waiting for the first train of the day. Pete LG99.
26th June 1977
The original Midland Railway Bedford station of 1859 had beautiful ridge & furrow glass awnings with intricate wrought iron supports. Here one of the St Pancras service dmus stands in the Up platform on 26th June 1977. I believe that the signal box glimpsed through the bridge arches stands on the junction between the Hitchin & London lines. In 1978, with electrification, all this was swept away to build a new steel & glass station located 200yards further north. This was to avoid the tight curves into the station from the south as the original platforms were on the older Hitchin lines. For 100 years since the Midland built its own line to London, this hadn't been a problem but to aid the speeding up of services the new station was built on the avoiding line curve to the left of this view. Pete LG99.
26th June 1977
Bedford Midland station, Bedfordshire, 26th June 1977. The beautiful old 1859 Midland Railway station seen here was demolished to make way for a modern station 200yards away in 1978 when the line was electrified from Bedford to St Pancras (The BedPan line). The station was actually built when the Midland Railway reached London via the their line to the Great Northern Railway at Hitchin and onwards to Kings Cross. After problems with the GNR the MR opened its own line to the capital in 1868. This was taken on a Sunday morning and the dmu seemed to be stabled in the platform rather than on a London service or perhaps just waiting for the first train of the day. Pete LG99.
13th August 1977
Before modernisation and electrification at Bedford. A Derby built class 127 multiple unit with M51643 leading on a St.Pancras service on 13th August 1977. Bob Belcher.
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