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A Metropolitan Cammell image showing the driver's compartment of a new DMU, thought to be one of the four-car sets for the North Eastern Region circa October 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Metropolitan Cammell image showing the interior of a new vehicle. It is a power car (floor hatches can be seen in second class) thus a DMCL and an early build (string luggage racks) and is thought to be part of a 4-car NER set circa October 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Metropolitan Cammell image showing the brake van of one of its DMUs. The handbrake immediately identifies it as a trailer brake second (TBSL) and thus one of the four-car sets for the NER, circa October 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Metropolitan Cammell image showing the van area of a TBSL vehicle, part of four-car NER set, thought to be one of the first batch circa October 1956. The corner cage was also a feature on the Derby Lightweight and Class 108 four-car sets. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Metropolitan Cammell image (negative DZ153) showing the interior a DMU vehicle. With floor hatches a toilet this is a DMCL, thought to be one of the first batch of four-car sets for the NER circa October 1956. Metropolitan Cammell.
A good spirited driver climbs into his Metro Cammell 2-car set, standing in Platform 5 at Huddersfield. The destination blind is for Wakefield Westgate. Chris Moxon Collection.
A Met-Camm three-car set (with trailer brake second) at West Cliff station, date unknown. Walter Burt.
An image from the Derby Works series (negative 57/281) showing a driver posed at the controls of a brand new 4-car Met-Camm DMU, thought to be E50184 or E50185. They were delivered to 51A (Darlington) at the end of February 1957. British Railways.
An image from the Derby Works series (negative 57/282) showing the driver's compartment in a brand new 4-car Met-Camm DMU, thought to be E50184 or E50185 in February 1957. British Railways.
An image from the Derby Works series (negative 57/283) showing the first class compartment of a Met-Camm DMCL, thought to be E50184 or E50185, part of a NER 4-car set. British Railways.
A North Eastern Region publicity image showing four two-car Met-Camm DMUs ready to leave Darlington for Saltburn, circa August 1957. Note the small plate with '10' on one of the lamp brackets. The Saltburn services had been dieselised from 19 August 1957. British Railways.
Saying their speeches at the opening of Darlington Diesel Maintenance depot (51A) on 17 September 1957 are, left to right: Sir Fergus Graham (MP for Darlington), GRH Nugent (Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation) who performed the opening, TH Summerson (Chairman of the North Eastern Board), and HA Short (General Manager, North Eastern Region). British Railways.
A fresh looking 101, heading for Coventry, taken at Northampton Castle. Undated, photo by Tony Pirie. Ian McDonald Collection.
A Met-Camm DMU in Birmingham New Street in April 1958. Michael Mensing.
A Met-Camm set in Birmingham New Street in April 1958. Furthest from the camera is 50322. Michael Mensing.
A three-car Met-Camm with a three-car BRC&W unit behind in Birmingham New Street with the 4.08pm local service to Lichfield City. Blue Square units had recently taken over from the Derby Lightweights on this service. Note the 3E shed code (Monument Lane) on the bufferbeam. Michael Mensing.
Brand new two-car Met-Camm sets in platform 1 of Glasgow Buchanan Street Station, possibly on a Six Lochs Land Cruise. Date unknown, circa July 1958. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Two Met-Camm DMUs - the closest a three-car with allocation 3E painted on the solebar - in Birmingham New Street with a Lichfield service in mid-1958. Michael Mensing.
An eight-car (four Met-Camm twins) diesel train departing from Glasgow Buchanan Street with an Aberdeen service during the peak 1958 holiday season. British Railways.
Brand new Met-Camm sets in Dundee West shed, approximately July 1958. Despite this relatively late date the vehicle do not have whiskers. The vehicle closest to the camera, a DTC, has a Met-Camm banner in the centre bodyside window. George Bett.