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Class 116 DMS 53106 sits beside 151 001 in Derby station in 1985. David Faircloth.
A Class 116 DMU at Birmingham Moor Street in 1987, awaiting departure with the 16:35 Birmingham Moor Street - Shirley suburban service. Closest seems to be 53112. Graeme Phillips Collection.
The Grid Iron Grice railtour of August 1982 offered the novelty of class 56 haulage from the Southern Region for a tour of the West Midlands on 7 August 1982. 56 003 has backed onto the rear of the train at Redditch, as one of Tyseley’s mixed up class 116 sets (TS523, M50055 and possibly M59019 + M50116) arrives and has to use the adjacent platform. Murray Liston.
DMUs were unusual sights on the single-track Leamington Spa - Coventry line, normally exclusively the preserve of freight and inter-city trains. On December 3 1983, three-car TS523 trundles through Kenilworth Common with a special shuttle from Coventry to Leamington Spa due to bridge repairs at Oxford. Mel Holley.
A Class 116 set arrives into Gloucester station on 29/9/84, carrying set number TS523 in the left cab window. Michael Mensing.
Class 116 DMBS from Tyseley set 523 which almost certainly makes this 53075. From a dark scratched neg, Birmingham New Street, November 1985. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.
Tyseley Class 116 set TS524 (50103 and presumably 59024 + 50066) arriving at Four Oaks on 30 May 1978. Michael Mensing.
M53112 at University, Birmingham on 07/07/84. Steve Jones.
M53112 at Five Ways, Birmingham on 07/07/84. Steve Jones.
On 29 January 1987 T524 (presumably 53068 + 59622 (a 127) + 53112) was in Birmingham Moor Street station having arrived from Stratford-upon-Avon and was being prepared to return to the same town. I don't know what the two vehicles to the left of the DMU were doing in the siding but assume that they had been left there after some sort of engineering work over the previous weekend. Freight traffic to the yard here had ceased from 1972; before I started railway photography or even owned a camera other than a plastic Kodak Brownie 127. Peter Tandy.
Until 1987, the GWR's Moor Street station was the terminus for trains both from the Leamington Spa and Stratford-upon-Avon lines. When Snow Hill was reopened a two platform through station was constructed adjacent to the terminus, which then became redundant and was closed. On 7 February 1987 the 12.10 to Stratford departs from Moor Street in the capable hands of driver Geoff Davies, the set being TS524, presumably 53068 + 59622 (a 127) + 53112. Moor Street lay derelict for many years, but now has been restored and is now used again by trains to relieve pressure on Snow Hill and to provide shoppers with a more direct route to their destinations. The car park is now part of the new Moor Street station with its own terminus platforms used by many of Chiltern Railways' Marylebone services including those using class 68 power in push-pull mode. Peter Tandy.
Refurbished Class 116 set TS525 (presumably 50830 + 59332 + 50883) with Class 122 55003 on the rear at Small Heath Bridge with a Moor Street service in August 1978. Michael Mensing.
Tyseley based Class 116 set TS526 (presumably 50095 + 59026 + 50070) at Sutton Coldfield in the Autumn of 1976. Lichfield City is on the destination blind. Michael Mensing.
Two refurbished Class 116 DMUs arrive into Lye station in the summer of 1977. Several doors are wide open towards the centre of the formation despite there being at least two coach lengths to go before the train stops. At the front is set TS526, presumably 50070 + 59026 + 50095. Michael Mensing.
Refurbished Tyseley Class 116 set TS526 (presumably 50095 + 59026 + 50070) is seen arriving into Four Oaks with the 6.29pm Longbridge - Lichfield service on the 30th May 1978. Michael Mensing.
Refurbished Class 116 set TS526 (50070 closest, presumably with 59026 + 50095) at Hatton on January 27, 1979. Michael Mensing.
Class 116s at Manchester Victoria on 24 May 1980, working one of the shuttles to the Rainhill 150 celebrations. Closest is set TS526 and M50095 presumably with M59026 + M50070. Nigel Menzies.
Tyseley-based Class 116 set TS526 (53070 leads, presumably with 53095 on the rear) arrives into Gloucester on September 29, 1984. Worcester Shrub Hill is on the destination blind. Michael Mensing.
It wasn't too difficult to take this sort of picture at Longbridge in 1986. There was a 15 minute local service on the Cross City line with some trains terminating here with others continuing to Redditch. I can't quite make out the unit number on the hybrid set about to leave on the up line on 14 June but think it may be T526 with class 116 power cars sandwiching a class 127 trailer. If I am correct then the car numbers are 53070 + 59626 + 53095 which were listed as being at Tyseley during 1987 although as a four-car set with another class 127 vehicle. It wasn't uncommon for Tyseley to muck about with their sets as faults developed and all sorts of odd combinations were seen. Peter Tandy.
A 47 on a NE/SW working awaiting departure, with a class 116 suburban DMU set no. TS526 formed 53070 - 59612 - 53095 stabled in the rain at Birmingham New Street, 07/Mar/1987. Robert Chilton.