Unidentified Class 116 DMU images
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1986
The terminus platforms at Moor Street station in Brimingham closed in September 1987 and the GWR's principal station in the city, Snow Hill, was rebuilt in a less attractive but more modern style and took over services along with 2 through platforms at a reconstructed Moor Street. This was the scene in 1986 while the civil engineering works were taking place on the renewed track bed leading to Snow Hill tunnel. A class 116 DMU is in one of the platforms and a BL Morris 1800 stands next to a Lada estate in some spare land. The terminus platforms at Moor Street were later reinstated to provide extra capacity for Chiltern Trains' services between Birmingham and London Marylebone. Peter Tandy.
1986
A class 116 made unidentifiable by the board telling passengers that it is a an express between Worcester Shrub Hill and Birmingham New Street was photographed in about 1986 passing non-stop through Langley Green station. The magnificent buildings in the background are the Langley Green maltings know as Showall's Maltings after the brewer Walter Showall who brewed beer nearby for distribution across the West Midlands. The Maltings were built in 1898 alongside the Titford Canal and continued in use until 2006. Peter Tandy.
Unknown Date
A Class 116 set in Newport (Gwent) with a westbound service for Cardiff. Undated. John McIntyre.
26th February 1986
A Class 116 set with a Class 127 TSL, possibly on an Oxford to Great Malvern working, leaves Worcester Foregate Street on 26/2/1986. Stephen Burdett.
1st March 1986
This image shows 47429 with stock in filthy exterior condition on a diverted York to Paddington inter-regional express getting in the background of my picture of one of Tyseley Depot's numerous class 116 DMUs on the way from Birmingham Moor Street to Stratford-upon-Avon 1 March 1986. The reflected sunlight at Small Heath, Birmingham, on the windscreen of the DMU made it impossible to identify the set number. Peter Tandy.
14th March 1986
A Class 116 DMU at Romford Friday 14th March 1986. Colin Brooks.
14th March 1986
A Class 116 working the 12:55 Romford - Upminster approaches Emerson Park on Friday 14th March 1986. Colin Brooks.
12th April 1986
A Class 116 set - still in plain blue livery - at Romford station on April 22, 1986. Colin Brooks.
5th May 1986
Two 3 car Tyseley allocated Derby Suburban 1957 built class 116 dmu's lay over in the head shunt at Matlock on 5th May 1986. This scene has been altered here now, as there is now a through connection between Network Rail to Peak Rails site at Rowsley 4 miles away. Andrew J Crowther.
14th June 1986
I spent a couple of minutes lining up this shot at Longbridge on 14 June 1986 and whilst waiting for the Four Oaks bound on the far platform train to move, heard the unmistakeable racket of a pair of 37s thundering south. I was, of course, completely bowled by this train, which must have been an additional working as everything else due had turned up as expected. Still, if the loco-hauled train hadn't been occupying the down main, then the unit closer to me would have been on its way to Redditch thus, lessening the attraction of the shot, by this time. The background in both the station and beyond has changed beyond recognition with overhead catenary in place to the west as far as Bromsgrove and the huge BL complex having been demolished to be replaced with the inevitable out-of-town shopping complex. Peter Tandy.
18th June 1986
A picture from Stratford-upon-Avon East signalbox on 18 June 1986 taken as a hybrid unit, the set number of which I can't quite read on the hi-res scan, leaves the station with the 08.00 to Birmingham. The shorter signal lever at the end of the frame operated a power-assisted distant arm on the other side of the Alcester Road bridge from the days when the line was open through to Cheltenham. It was rarely used in steam days as virtually all trains stopped for water but after 1963 some diesel-hauled freights would have been given a clear road. It was still possible to operate the lever even in 1986 when all 3 signals for the up line were pulled off. Peter Tandy.
25th July 1986
A class 116 set at Leamington Spa on 25th July 1986. Ian Buck.
September 1986
An unidentified class 116 DMU passes Shields Road Depot circa September 1986. Andrew McConnell.
25th September 1986
Class 116 set at Warwick on the 25th September 1986. Ian Buck.
October 1986
A mish-mash DMU (a 116 with probably a 127 TS) is seen between Langley Green and Smethwick West in the Black Country in October 1986 while working a Stourbridge Junction to Birmingham New Street service. There was, and still is, a 15 minute service frequency on this line so any number of pictures could be taken in a variety of locations. I particularly liked this area because of the industrial backdrop. Peter Tandy.
20th November 1986
For a few days at the end of November it used to be possible in the right conditions to obtain this shot of the class 116 unit (this one with a Met-Camm centre car) forming the 08.20 Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham train as it was shunted from the arrival platform, P1, to P2 for departure. I recall 20 November 1986 as being particularly cold and didn't hang around for many minutes. Peter Tandy.
22nd November 1986
A Class 116/101 hybrid DMU in London Paddington station on November 22, 1986. Jonathan Hazan.
30th December 1986
A Class 116 DMU arrives into Birmingham Moor Street on 30 December 1986. Robert28194.
1987
A couple of 116 vehicles can be seen behind the stash of loco cabs, and a Class 101 behind them. Vic Berry's in 1987. Ian Francis.
January 1987
Last weeks of the valleys DMUs - two Class 116s Ystrad Rhondda January 1987. Peter Brabham.