Class 104 DMU images
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5th July 1980
With the now-demolished toffee factory on Virginia Street as a backdrop and with almost new Class 507's stabled in the sidings, a six-car Class 104 DMU with DMBS M50451 leading, was approaching journeys end at Southport with an evening service from Manchester Victoria on July 5th 1980. Martyn Hilbert.
6th July 1980
Set: 78
Two-car Class 104 DMU 78 - with possibly a Cravens attached - is seen in Great Yarmouth station on 6 July 1980. Brian Daniels.
circa August 1980
Freshly overhauled Class 104 DMCL E50567 in Doncaster Works circa August 1980. Paul Redmond.
2nd August 1980
The view through bridge 26 looking towards Kirkham North Junction as a 6-Car Class 104 formation takes the station avoiding line with a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service on Saturday August 2nd 1980. The leading car is M50474 one of the large fleet of 104's then allocated to Newton Heath Depot. This was before the construction of the Kirkham by-pass which now crosses the line adjacent to the signalbox. The Coast Line to Blackpool South can be seen diverging away on the left, whilst behind the outer home signal on the Blackpool bound line is one of the brick piers that once carried the flyover that took trains from the Marton Direct Line (From Blackpool Central) over the Blackpool North route, the ramp onto the up direction station avoiding line being at the West side of the signalbox. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1980
A view along the District Civil Engineers sidings at Kirkham North Junction through the cast-iron span of bridge 26, as a 2-Car Class 104 DMU formed of cars M50449 & M50535 comes off the Ribby Curve and the end of the Coast Line with the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 2nd 1980. These were the days when the core daytime service on the Blackpool South line ran to and from Kirkham only, utilising a reversing siding at the Preston end of Kirkham station. On weekday mornings a through service ran to Manchester Victoria and a corresponding return service ran in the evening, the unit stabling overnight at Blackpool South, the route then was still double track and South station had two platform roads. In the 1970's the through Manchester train was often formed of a Class 124 Transpennine DMU set. Martyn Hilbert.
2nd August 1980
A Class 104 on the rear of a long formation heading westbound at Barton Moss, near Eccles, with the 11:21 Rhyl - Manchester Victoria, 2/8/80. Graeme Phillips Collection.
10th August 1980
On the final day of the British Rail service prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro system, cars E50543 E59224 E59208 E50586 await departure from North Shields to Newcastle. The station can be seen to be in a dilapidated condition. Information on the history of this station can be found at www.lner.info/forums/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4997. Graeme Phillips Collection.
10th August 1980
On the final day of the British Rail service prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro system - 10/08/80 - cars E50543 E59224 E59208 E50586 depart North Shields for Newcastle. The station can be seen to be in a dilapidated condition. Graeme Phillips Collection.
10th August 1980
Class 104 4-car set (E50566 + E59191 + E59242 + E50545) and 2-car Class 108 (E56192 + E50601) at Morecambe on 10th August 1980. Robert Frise.
10th August 1980
Cars E50574 E59244 E59231 E50576 are seen arriving at Percy Main, North Tyneside, with the 11:20 from Newcastle on 10/08/80, the final day of British Rail services on this route prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro system. These cars were transferred from South Gosforth (GF) depot to Darlington (DN) depot on this date, immediately upon cessation of services on this Tyneside circuit. Graeme Phillips Collection.
10th August 1980
Cars E50576 E59231 E59244 E50574 are seen awaiting departure from Tynemouth with the 10:42 to Newcastle on 10/8/80, the final day of British Rail services on this route prior to conversion to Tyneside Metro system. The platform to the left appears to have been newly reconstructed. These cars were transferred from South Gosforth (GF) depot to Darlington (DN) depot on this date, immediately upon cessation of services on this Tyneside circuit. Graeme Phillips Collection.
30th August 1980
Recently painted E50574 (with window bars) is seen at Whitby on the 30th August 1980. Jerry Glover.
circa September 1980
M50460 leading arriving at Manchester Victoria Phil Bidwell.
6th September 1980
Set: 54
This four-car dmu formation on September 6, 1980 is headed by a Class 104 Birmingham RC&W Co driving trailer. I think I can identify this as E56187. It carries a Norwich set identity (54) and its partner is a class 105 Cravens vehicle, a 114 is on the back. The train is headed for Doncaster via Spalding, hence the train is crossing off the main (Peterborough) line into a branch platform. It probably originated at Great Yarmouth. This route closed in 1982. The large Whitemoor yard can be seen behind March North Junction signalbox. Jeremy Chapter.
13th September 1980
Newton Heath Class 104 'White Line' Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50472, was lead car of a Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service, awaiting custom at Layton on September 13th 1980. These 3-car Class 104 sets were the mainstay of such services in the 1970's and early 1980's. Martyn Hilbert.
13th September 1980
In the days when the Coast Line from Kirkham to Blackpool South was still a double track railway, a Class 104 2-Car DMU with M56175 leading, calls at a run-down looking Lytham Station on 13th September 1980 whilst working the Kirkham to Blackpool South shuttle service. A far-cry from the days when this line was busy with express, residential and excursion traffic, how on earth in the smart and tidy town of Lytham was the station allowed to wither away like this. Worse was to follow - in 1983 the Coast Line was reduced to single track. Martyn Hilbert.
13th September 1980
Three car class 104 set 50560 - 59225 - 50579 on the fuel road at Stratford depot on 13/Sep/1980. They had recently been transferred from Norwich and 50560 still has its Norwich destination blind as evidenced by showing 'King's Lynn', which was not present on the Stratford blind. Both power cars worked for a couple more years before being withdrawn from Stratford in early 1982. The trailer car fared better, being transferred a couple of times until ending its days at Ayr in 1987. Interestingly 59225 was delivered new in a 4-car set which included 50579. Robert Chilton.
16th September 1980
A once familiar scene that was played out daily from the Manchester Victoria of old - a well-worn location with an equally well-worn first generation Diesel Multiple Unit. With most of the doors left wide open, a Class 104 BRCW DMU with Driving Motor Brake Second M50455 leading, was awaiting departure for Blackpool North on September 16th 1980. These units, all allocated just up the line at Newton Heath Depot, dominated the services to Blackpool & Southport in the 1970's and into the early 1980's. Martyn Hilbert.
24th September 1980
E50543 + E59224 + E50548 at Darlington on 24/9/80. An ex-South Gosforth BRCW Class 104 during it's short life at Darlington. The 2 northern bay platforms at Darlington, by then just used by Darlington to Bishop Auckland trains, were done away with, one infilled for car parking and the other by the realignment of the down line out of Platform 4. The Bishop Auckland service was extended as through workings to and from Saltburn (or Whitby). The 08 in the background is 08004, the short little bay that the 08 often stood in between station pilot duties is long gone now too. John Carter.
5th October 1980
Class 104 DMBS in Swindon Works on 5 October 1980. A Swindon-built DMU is on the right. Brian Daniels.