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Retro-green parcels set 55967 / 55966 at the Carlisle Upperby open day on 19/7/86. Jerry Glover.
Class 127 diesel-hydraulic parcels unit set 920 (55967 55966) arriving at Manchester Victoria. October 1986. Ian Charles.
Retro-green Class 127 parcels vehicle 55966 at Bletchley in 1987. Graham Baker.
Parcels vehicle 55967 sits in the sun at Bletchley in 1987. Graham Baker.
The drivers controls of a Class 127. This was 55966 at Bletchley in 1987. Graham Baker.
The plaque fitted to 55966 (ex-51591) celebrating it's high mileage - an average of 52,000 miles a year, a thousand miles a week! Graham Baker.
55966 & 55967 at Preston at 11.20pm on 30/03/1987 about to head south on a parcels service Deane Baker.
55966, 55967 and 47357 in Preston station on 22-05-87. Vincent Haworth.
Class 127 parcels conversion 55967 at Doncaster Works, 12 June 1987. Syd Young.
Class 127 Parcels unit 55967 (ex-51610) + 55966 (ex-51591) at Doncaster on 12 July 1987. Rob Paterson.
Retro-green converted Class 127 parcels DMU set 920 (55967 + 55966) in platform 3B at Preston in the late 1980s. Curly42.
Longsight allocated Class 127 parcels set 920, 55967 (ex-51610) + 55966 (ex-51591) at Buxton on the 10th June 1988. Andrew J Crowther.
Seen at Buxton on the 10th June 1988 is Longsight allocated Class 127 parcels DMU set 920, 55966 (51591) closest. The plaque by the drivers window reads "1959 1,250,000 miles 1983". Andrew J Crowther.
Derby class 127 2-car diesel-hydraulic parcels unit 920 (M55966 & M55967) of Longsight Diesel TMD at Crewe station - circa 08/1988. 53A Models of Hull Collection.
In 1985, 22 redundant power Class 127 ex-Bedford-St.Pancras (Bed Pan) diesel-hydraulic cars, including the first built, No.51591, were rebuilt to form 11 two-car parcels units and repainted into BR green livery. Vehicles were renumbered 55966-987, and formed into sets 910 to 920. They were fitted with roller shutter doors and were based at Chester depot. They lasted in service until withdrawal in 1989. Unit 55966, seen here at Bletchley on 29th August 1988 in the company of 55967, was converted from unit 'Bed-Pan' unit No.51591, and was subsequently preserved at the Midland Railway Centre upon withdrawal from BR service. Gordon Edgar.
The plaque records that as M51591 it achieved 1.25 million miles in service, taken at Manchester Victoria on 8/10/88. Paul Moxon.
55967 paired with 55966, displaying a headcode for either a Man Vic-Barrow or Preston van train, they were stabled at Manchester Victoria on 8/10/88. Paul Moxon.
Class 127 parcels set 920 (55967 + 55966) at Crewe on 25-2-89. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 127 55966, set number 920, is seen stabled at Tyseley on 08.04.1989 carrying green livery with Express Parcels logos, but the red plaques have been removed. Andy Cole.
Class 127 55966, set number 920, is seen stabled at Tyseley on 08.04.1989 carrying green livery with Express Parcels logos, but the red plaques have been removed. Andy Cole.