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Arrived at Tyseley with a Henley in Arden to Birmingham Moor street service is a Derby subrban triple DMU. These units had just appeared at Tyseley to replace the 2-6-2 tanks on suburban services, 30 years later they were still at work. The picture shows the extent of track at Tyseley at this time, the DMU is at platform 4 and at the side are up and down freight lines and also tracks for locos to leave Tyseley shed and reverse into the carriage sidings. The building on the right has gone, but the walkway behind the fence is still in use. Taken with a Kodak Brownie 127 when I was 10. Geoff Dowling.
Derby 2 car set, later class 114, with possibly 50016 leading is at Chinley East Junction with a Sheffield - New Mills service on 15/05/1979. When clean this short lived white and blue livery looked fresh, particularly in a country scene, when filthy and in a drab urban landscape it looked terrible. Geoff Dowling.
50390 pauses at the charming little wayside station at Lidlington. This was the pre-modernised Bletchley - Bedford line and Lidlington still has old style lamps, the signal man is out in his Hi-Vis jacket shutting the large manual gates. The train is the 11.10 Bletchley - Bedford service on the 10th November 1979. Geoff Dowling.
A hazy summer day at Mexborough Junction which is between Rotherham and Doncaster on 13/06/1979. A Swindon Class 123 is leading the 12.10 Cleethorpes - Manchester past the old signal box which is neatly situated between the waterway and railway. In the foreground is the remains of Swinton Central station and to the right Mexborough Shed (36B). Geoff Dowling.
A meeting on the bridge. On Newcastle King Edward bridge a Met-Camm DMU is leaving with the 14.06 Newcastle - South Shields train. Approaching the 101 is split-box 37 092 with a loaded coal train. In the background Gateshead is undergoing change with slum terraces being swept away in favour of modern tower blocks. 10/09/1974. Geoff Dowling.
This was a picture Peter never printed, possibly because it was just a DMU and around this time, 01/03/1959, steam was everywhere and Snow Hill would never close. The perspective of 2013 is different, Snow Hill has closed and re-opened, the dreaded new DMU has been replaced twice, first by the class 150 and latterly by the class 172 and the two chaps will be late 70's early 80's by now. Why there was such a lovely light effect is unknown, the new diesels should not have produced that amount of smoke, maybe a steam hauled freight had gone through centre road, we will never know and Peter never saw it. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
A Gloucester RCW unit (Class 100) is just leaving the pleasant llittle station at Pelsall on 2 December 1963, it was the first station north of Walsall on the South Staffordshire line to Wychnor Junction, it lasted until passenger services were withdrawn in 1965. As can be seen from Peter's photograph, it had a substantial main station building and a good sized brick built waiting room opposite. A public path now passes the site with little trace of the station remaining. Image by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
At Crewe open day on 22nd September 1979 Iris, the test coach was present. The unit was one of two that first saw service on the Banbury (Merton Street) to Buckingham trains, originally as M79900. Iris has become RDB 975010 and has "Train Control Group Research & Development Division, Derby" lettered down her sides. Happily the life extension as a test vehicle has seen Iris preserved. Geoff Dowling.
Wickham built DMBS E50415 is seen on display in front of the banana ripening store at Battersea Wharf on 27 June 1957. It was part of the Modern Railway Travel Exhibition which opened the following day. Behind is the framework of a Wickham trailer, to the right the sign for exhibit 20 notes is as an Inter City Diesel Power Coach, designed and built by British Railways, which was W79083. On the solebar are a paint date of 11-5-56 and a Varnish date of 14-5-56. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A couple of Pressed Steel triples sit in Reading station with a train for Paddington in July 1962. W51352 is recorded as the closest vehicle on the negative sleeve, and although the image is grainy it looks like it could actually be W51353. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Met-Camm DMU departs from Castlecary station for Glasgow Queen Street on 24 February 1967. The station closed soon afterwards on 6 March. The closest vehicle, a former NER DMBS, carries set number 216. There were only ten DMBSs with the four lamp arrangement, two were on the ScR at the time, 50152 and 50153, allocated to Dundee, and both moved to Cambridge in May 1968. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Met-Camm DMU formed of M50310 + M59121 + M50328 departs from Stratford-upon-Avon sometime in 1969. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Cravens Class 105 twin departs from Fenny Stratford on 3 August 1974. The closest vehicle is a DMBS from the M50390-4 batch and likely M50393. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Derby Lightweight power twin arrives at Llandudno Junction circa 1964. Closest seems to be M79189, allocated to Llandudno Junction at the time. The vehicle was allocated to eight different depots (7 LMR and one ScR) before being withdrawn in June 1967, when it then spent a short spell as an Eastern Region route learner. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 126 DMU on an Ayr - Glasgow service approaches Lochgreen Junction on 17 March 1978. The DMSL has a set number under the right indicator box, something few of these intermediate vehicles had as the set number was determined by the DMBSL and their formations changed regularly. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The Branch Line Society Clydeside Wanderer railtour during the Dumbarton Central stop on 25 August 1979. Set number 177 is taped over and 178 is in the cab window, and this seems to be SC51805. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 117 DMU set L428 on Reading depot, taken from a passing train. The slide process date was February 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A three-car Class 101 DMU passing Norwich Thorpe signal box on 17 March 1985. Image taken by RC Hunt. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 121 55022 arrives at Twyford in early July 1981 on the occasion of the Henley Regatta. Tony Walmsley.
Class 121 driving trailer 54283 forms part of the Windsor shuttle train seen at Slough in 1988. Tony Walmsley.
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