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Metro-Cammell products new & old side-by-side in the carriage shed at Llandudno Junction on May 11th 1993. With a 27 year age difference, The two-car Class 101 with car 51245 nearest the camera, had been built in 1958, and in 1993 formed as part of Longsight set LO604. The 151 was a pair of units (151 001/002) constructed by Met-Cam at Washwood Heath as prototypes for a proposed new generation of DMU's in 1985. In the event, the order went to BREL for the Class 150/2 Sprinter fleet and the 151's remained as 'what-might-have-been'. Metro-Cammell later gained a 'consolation prize' order to build the 114 x 2-car Class 156 fleet between 1987 & 1989. The 151's were eventually renumbered to 151 003/004 and various schemes were put forward to re-use them, but following a period of outdoor storage at Crewe South, they were scrapped in 2004. Martyn Hilbert.
Class 101/116 hybrid set LO633 53269 + 53849 at Manchester Piccadilly on May 17, 1991. Nicholas Youngman.
Class 101 DTSL 54061 seen in Doncaster station on 15 December 1990. Dave Warby.
Running through the flat agricultural landscape of rural West Lancashire, a Metro-Cammell Class 101 two-car DMU formed of DTCL E54362 + DMBS E51435 (set N613) was passing Cocker Bar whilst running between Midge Hall and Croston with a Preston to Ormskirk service on May 2nd 1989. Martyn Hilbert.
At the head of a line-up of First Generation DMU sets stabled between duties in platform 5 at Southport on April 16th 1989, was two-car Class 101/108 hybrid formed of cars E54085 & E51420 (N616). Martyn Hilbert.
54085 + 53986 at Gainsborough Lea Road on 30-03-90. John Carter.
A Class 101/108 hybrid (presumably 54085 + 53986) caught at Nottingham on the evening of the 8th January 1991. Mike Cooper.
54056 is the Met-Camm in a Class 101/108 hybrid (presumably with 53949) at Sheffield, 13th September 1989. Malcolm Clements.
Class 101 DTS E54219 at Snailwell on 7th May 1991. Nicholas Youngman.
Class 101 E51206 (N656) at Vic Berry's on the 14th October 1989. Nicholas Youngman.
Having collected the single line token from the signal box at nearby Midge Hall, a Class 101 two-car DMU formed of cars M51523 & M53219 (N657) was gaining momentum as it was passing Pages Crossing at Ulnes Walton whilst en-route to its next station call at Croston with a Preston to Ormskirk service on April 29th 1989. Martyn Hilbert.
51243 at Snailwell on 18th August 1990. It carries set number N659 under the vehicle number and under the drivers window. It gained the number when moving to Neville Hill in March 1989. Nicholas Youngman.
51449 makes a return to South Wales with 53240, seen in Swansea Carriage sidings on 11/3/89. Once a Cardiff vehicle in set C802, 51449 had returned to the Western Region after a period working from Heaton and Newton Heath depots. Mac Winfield.
E54396 carries the unusual set number NSE02 when seen in May 1988 in Colchester (North) station. It is presumably paired with 51221 and on Sudbury duties. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 101 DMU driving coaches Nos. E54396 and 51221, of set No. NSE02, stand at Colchester working a service to Sudbury on 2 May 1988. Brian Creasey.
Exeter St Davids Devon 4th January 1975. As my train is departing westwards from the platform on the engine shed side at Exeter St Davids station we get a glimpse of the Great Western engine shed. The shed has been partially demolished but some of the stone buildings remain and a scattering of diesels are in residence. On the right is Class 101 DMU set P800 (presumably 51445 + 59549 + 51515) in blue livery. Pete LG99.
Class 101 DMU set P800 (power cars W51445 + presumably W51515) running with a Class 116 TC is seen at Dawlish Warren. The slide process date was June 1975, this likely dates from May 1975. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Met-Camm DMU set P801 at Exeter St Davids on 26/8/74. Stephen Burdett.
Class 101 DMU set P801 (presumably 51517 + 59547 + 51446) in Paignton station in late summer 1974. D1006 Western Stalwart is arriving, 2B43 is thought to be the 18:55 Paignton - Newton Abbot. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Not so long after seeing my first Western Region allocated "Metro-Cammell" DMU at Newton Abbot, they started turning up at Hereford - as Cardiff received a few sets. Here is set P802 (presumably 51521 + 59550 + 51449 transferred from LA to BR in June 1975) waiting to leave on a Worcester bound service. It was unusual to see these sets in blue and white livery at this time, though later this became common. John Crooks.
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