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Class 127 parcel set 918, cars 55968 + 55978, in BR Express Parcels livery at Bristol TMD on 18-10-1988. Doug Pritchard Collection.
Class 127 parcel set 918 (M55968 and presumably M55978) at Hereford on 23 December 1988. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 127 DPU set 918 (presumably 55968 + 55978) stabled at Cardiff Riverside on 28 February 1989. Robert Thomas.
Class 127 power cars on Leicester depot, 31-5-83. Centre seems to be 51639 which would become one of the parcel conversions. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Class 127 parcel set 4 in Manchester Victoria on 14 December 1985. M55984 still has to have a roller door fitted, M55974 has the experimental roller door at the front of the vehicle. Robert Forsythe.
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.
A Class 127 parcel DMU with 55984 closest at Harrow and Wealdstone circa 1986. Paul Redmond.
Class 127 DPU 55984, set 914 presumably paired with 55985, at Crewe on 20 August 1986. Dave Warby.
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.
Two Class 127 parcel units pass though Northampton on 2 May 1987. Lewis Bevan.
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.
Class 127 parcels DMU set 914 at Normanton-on-Soar on 20th February 1989. Closest is thought to be 55984. Andrew Walker.
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.
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.
"Bedpan" Class 127 Rolls Royce 51640 departs London St Pancras. 1 November 1981. ANDREW SALES.
Class 127 DMBS M51640 at St Pancras on 24 March 1983. Lewis Bevan.
At St Pancras on the 24th April 1983 is a Class 127 set with 51640 closest to the camera. Chris Lings.
55973+55983 at Manchester Victoria, Saturday 17th August 1985. Photo by the late Rob Simpson. Ian Hazlehurst.
On the West Coast Main Line between Tring and Cheddington is unit 913 (55973 + 55983) heading north with a Down Parcels Service. Taken from a passing 310 Electric Unit on the down Fast Line on 24th May 1986. AndrewHA.
Class 127 DPU set 913 (55973 + 55983) at Watford Junction heading Down at 16:40 on 5 September 1986. Dave Warby.