Class 127 DMU images identified by Set No.
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913
18th February 1988
55973
Former Bed-Pan Class 127 DMU now part of a 2-car parcels set 913, car 55973 is seen at Buxton on 18-2-88. It was converted from DMBS 51640. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.
914
1986
55974
Class 127 parcel conversion 55974 (ex-51642) seen in Birmingham New Street station sometime in 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.
27th February 1986
55974
I didn't see or photograph many class 127 Diesel Parcel Units but do have this shot of set 914, formed of 55974 + 55984 shortly after it had passed through Manchester Victoria on 27 February 1986. Irritatingly, this one one of a small handful of slides that weren't taken in sun during the whole period I was here, on the platform of the former Exchange Station. A class 120 unit is about to enter the terminus platforms at Victoria and the end of a journey from Blackpool. Peter Tandy.
30th March 1986
55984
Former Bedford-St Pancras Class 127 DMU cars, converted for parcels use with roller shutter doors and numbered M55984 & M55974 (914), were stabled at Croft Street Sidings adjacent to Fylde Junction and the Preston PSB on March 30th 1986. There had been 11 x 2-car parcel units formed in 1985 (sets 910-920) utilising redundant and modified Class 127 DMBS vehicles. Martyn Hilbert.
circa mid-1986
55984
A Class 127 parcel DMU with 55984 closest at Harrow and Wealdstone circa 1986. Paul Redmond.
25th July 1986
55974
Two Class 127 DMU Newspaper cars, 55974 + 55975, at Doncaster on 25 July 1986. Keith Miller.
20th August 1986
55984
Class 127 DPU 55984, set 914 presumably paired with 55985, at Crewe on 20 August 1986. Dave Warby.
11th April 1987
55984
Climbing the bank out of Manchester Victoria to Miles Platting on 11/04/1987 are parcel cars 55984 and 55985. Both Derby class 127, 55984 was converted from 51639 and 55985 was previously 51619 they running now as set 914. Note an older set number 4 is also displayed, and one marker light cover is open. Geoff Dowling.
2nd May 1987
55984
Two Class 127 parcel units pass though Northampton on 2 May 1987. Lewis Bevan.
28th June 1987
55984
Class 127 55984, set number 914, is seen stabled outside the Factory at Tyseley on 28.06.1987. This was converted from 51639. Andy Cole.
20th February 1989
55984
Class 127 parcels DMU set 914 at Normanton-on-Soar on 20th February 1989. Closest is thought to be 55984. Andrew Walker.
1st April 1989
55984
Class 127 55984, set number 914, is seen inside the factory at Tyseley while undergoing repairs on 01.04.1989. This car was rebuilt from 51639, from a passenger car into a parcels carrying car, complete with roller doors. These sets normally kept to formation, but 55984's partner 55974 was scrapped early on, and on this day it was partnered with 55971. Andy Cole.
6th May 1989
55984
Class 127 parcel vehicles M55984 + M55980, M55983 + M55973 and M55981 sit behind 03170 (the last ever Swindon works overhaul) and a brake van on Longsight TMD, 6-5-89. It was just over a week before the whole fleet of Class 127 DPUs were withdrawn, but these five were already out of use and used as a source of spare parts. Kevin Dowd.
915
3rd May 1986
55985
Class 127 55985, set number 915, is seen at Tyseley on 03.05.1986 unusually coupled with 54052, and not it's usual partner 55975. 55985 was converted from 51619. Andy Cole.
3rd October 1986
55985
Seen at Buxton on 3rd October 1986 in what is now in its second role, but originally built as 4 car units is this 1959 Derby Suburban now a Longsight allocated class 127 dmu set 915, 55985 (51619) + 55984 (51639). From new these units were almost exclusively used on the London St Pancras - Bedford services as 4-car units before being displaced in June 1983, in 1985 22 redundant power cars which had been stored at Carlisle were rebuilt to form 11 two car parcels units, car A was for Express Parcels and car B was for Newspapers, they lasted in service until 1989. Andrew J Crowther.
18th March 1989
55985
Class 127 DMU set 915 (55985 and presumably 55975) stabled in the up side parcels platform at Cardiff Central on 18 March 1989. Robert Thomas.
18th March 1989
55985
Class 127 DMU set 915 (55985 and presumably 55975) stabled in the up side parcels platform at Cardiff Central on 18 March 1989. Stuart Mackay Collection.
13th May 1989
At approx 1500hrs on Saturday 13th May 1989 sets 915 (55975 + 55985) and 920 (55966 + 55967) creep slowly up the centre Road at Northampton Station. Their destination unknown, by 1100hrs the following Day all 4 cars were tucked up inside the DMU Shed at Manchester's Longsight Depot. AndrewHA.
21st July 1990
55975
An assortment of parcels DMUs converted from former "Bed-Pan" hydraulic class 127 units stand forlornly withdrawn in Crewe Basford Hall yard on 21/Jul/1990, with 55975 (formerly 51615) nearest. Three vehicles from these parcels conversions were subsequently preserved. Behind 55975 can just be seen departmental coach ADB977191, formerly class 100 56106, which was later moved for storage at Crewe Brook Sidings and ultimately disposed of at Crewe Works in 2000. Robert Chilton.
916
1986
55976
Two Class 127 parcel sets, the nearest is likely 55976 + 55986, with two GUVs in tow, seen on Hest Bank in 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.