Derby Lightweight DMU images
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circa 1985
From the kitchen window of my then nearby home on a date I can't find in my notebooks, but probably in 1985, I saw 31426 arrive at Stratford-upon-Avon with the Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train (TDB975007/8) in tow. It went into the Down Goods Loop where the class 31 was detached, ran along the up main line to the crossover before being coupled to 6Z08 and prepared to leave. Here, the second man watches the locomotive approach along the by then rarely used loop which was taken out of use within a few weeks. Peter Tandy.
circa 1985
From the kitchen window of my then nearby home on a date I can't find in my notebooks, but probably in 1985, I saw 31 426 arrive at Stratford-upon-Avon with the Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train (TDB975007/975008) in tow. It went into the Down Goods Loop where the class 31 was detached, ran along the up main line to the crossover before being coupled to 6Z08 and prepared to leave. After a brake test carried out I took this picture as 6Z08 left the loop to use the crossover (which the signalman maintained wasn't fit to use!) and joined the up main line towards Bearley Junction. Peter Tandy.
circa April 1985
Derby Leightweight RDB975010 stabled at the Derby RTC. The slide process date was April 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.
20th June 1985
Test Coach Iris at Inverness on 20/06/85. Roddy MacPhee.
22nd June 1985
975010 at Inverness on 22/06/85. Photo courtesy (c) StevenH. Roddy MacPhee Collection.
6th July 1985
Displaying the headcode 6Z08, Ultrasonic Test Train DB975007 - DB975008 arrives at the south end of platform 6 at Wigan North Western, 6th July 1985. Built in 1955 the unit had been converted to departmental use 15 years earlier and would eventually be secured for preservation after final withdrawal in 1994. S Gaskell.
1st August 1985
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test train 975008 + 975007 stopped at Leamington Spa. The driver is on the phone to the Signal box visible beyond him, officially Leamington Spa SB though the cast nameboard included North, but not picked out in white, while the diagram included Jc. The adjacent box to the South was by then, Fenny Compton. The new SSI PSB is behind the photographer then in shadow mode. P42 is a power operated derailer as there isn't room for a trap point. Nicholas T Smith.
10th August 1985
This is what the Ultrasonic Test Train looked like in 1985. It consisted of two Derby Lightweight DMU vehicles carrying the numbers 975007 + 975008 and on 10 August of that year was carrying the reporting number 6Z08 while running from Derby to Marylebone when I photographed it passing Leamington Spa station. Peter Tandy.
22nd October 1985
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train 975007 + 975008 at Newcastle on 22/10/1985. Graeme Phillips Collection.
16th January 1986
RDB 975010 'Iris' stabled at Dingwall on the 16th January 1986 while on RETB testing duties. Hamish Stevenson.
8th June 1986
Derby Lightweight single car RDB 975010 'Test Coach Iris' stabled on Derby RTC on 8-6-86, with APT non-driving motor 49005 behind. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
1986
975010, Test Coach Iris, at Doncaster in 1986. John Law.
circa 1986
975010 - Test Coach Iris - seen at Bletchley TMD circa 1986. Graham Baker.
circa 1986
975010 at Bletchley TMD circa 1986. It's carrying CA, DY and RG shed stickers! Graham Baker.
23rd August 1986
975007 is seen at Tyseley carriage sidings on 23.08.1986 coupled to it's long time partner 975008. Andy Cole.
23rd August 1986
975008 is seen stabled at Tyseley on 23.08.1986. It was converted from 79612, and is with partner 975007. Andy Cole.
Unknown Date
Test Coach Iris 975010 seen at Crewe. Undated. The blue sticker in the centre cab window reads "The Orcadian" - a momento from it's time at Inverness. Andrew McConnell.
10th June 1987
Test Coach Iris DB975010 heads northbound through Peterborough on 10th June 1987. AndrewHA.
July 1987
The Ultrasonic Test Train 975008 + 975007 seen entering Reading station circa July 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
July 1987
The Derby Lightweight Ultrasonic Test Train 975007 + 975008 rests probably at Reading station, circa July 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.