DMU Operations: North Eastern Region
Leeds - Morecambe
Normally Neville Hill sets were used, but Hull Botanic Gardens units were also used.
Images
22nd February 1975
A Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camm at Skipton on a Morecambe - Leeds service, 22nd February 1975. 54A South Dock.
May 1975
A Class 104 centre car and Class 111 power car form part of a DMU seen at Melling (between Settle Jct and Morecambe) in early May 1975. Michael Mensing.
21st June 1975
A four-car and two-car Class 101 form the 12:10 Morecambe - Leeds service seen at the site of Kildwick and Crosshill station on 21 June 1975. Michael Mensing.
23rd June 1975
One of the early Class 108 refurbishments with the small headcode indicator in the cab window (displaying 1G45) forms the 17:12 Leeds-Morecambe service seen approaching Skipton on 23 June 1975. Only five Class 108 pairs had been refurbished by this date, all allocated to Neville Hill, and it would be almost a year before any more of the Class were treated. Michael Mensing.
2nd August 1975
E56192 leads a two-car Class 108 with a two-car Met-Camm on the rear working the 16:45 Morecambe - Leeds service seen leaving Skipton on 2 August 1975. Michael Mensing.
2nd October 1975
A Class 110 DMU arrives into Clapham station (on the Leeds - Morecambe via Skipton line) on 2 October 1975. Michael Mensing.
1st April 1976
E50202 leads the Class 101 forming the 15:35 Leeds - Morecambe service seen arriving at Gargrave on 1 April 1976. Michael Mensing.
16th April 1976
With a two-car and three-car Class 101s visible the 14:13 Leeds - Morecambe service is seen west of the site of Bell Busk station on 16 April 1976. Michael Mensing.
8th July 1976
A Met-Camm and Derby unit at Lancaster on the 8th July 1976. The Class 101 is almost certainly E50198. It was the only MBS of the batch 50198 - 50209 (that had the "stump" above the destination box) to have been refurbished by that time - ex-works following refurbishment 26th May 1976. Tim Stubbs.
Unknown date
A Class 110 DMU departs from Clapham station presumably with a Morecambe - Leeds service on 2 October 1975. Michael Mensing.
22nd March 1977
A two-car Met-Camm DMU set (E56394 + E50155) in Wennington station with the 2.15pm Morecambe-Leeds service on 22 March 1977. Michael Mensing.
22nd March 1977
Departing from Wennington station on the 22 March 1977 is a Met-Camm DMU set formed of E50155 and E56394 working the 14:15 Morecambe-Leeds service on 22 March 1977. Michael Mensing.
23rd March 1977
The 3.35pm Leeds - Morecambe arrives into Keighley station on March 23, 1977, formed of a Roll-Royce powered Met-Camm set with DMBS M50134 leading. Michael Mensing.
10th August 1977
E50227 + E56070 with Class 108 E56197 + E50619 at Morecambe on the 12th August 1977 on a Leeds working. Robert Frise.
autumn 1977
A three-car Class 111 DMU with E50284 closest departs from Wennington with a Leeds - Morecambe service in autumn 1977. Michael Mensing.
April 1978
A 4-car refurbished Class 101 seen at Shipley with a Morecambe - Leeds service in April 1978. Rex Holt.
April 1978
A 4-car refurbished Class 101 on a Leeds - Morecambe service at Shipley, 4/78. Rex Holt.
1st May 1978
In refurbished white with blue stripe livery, a Class 108 DMU rake with DMCL E50630 nearest the camera, was stood at Morecambe Promenade on Bank Holiday Monday May 1st 1978. Complete with its paraffin tail lamp the DMU had arrived from Leeds with an additional bank holiday service. On the left of this scene is one of the stumps of the steel lattice gantries that once supported the catenary of the electric system that connected Morecambe, Heysham & Lancaster via Torrisholme which was closed in January 1966 along with the station at Lancaster Green Ayre. There were several of these cut-down lattice monuments at Morecambe for many years. Martyn Hilbert.
1st May 1978
Complete with its panelled over headcode box, Metro-Cammell Class 111 Driving Motor Composite Lavatory car M51552 was against the block at Morecambe Promenade, having arrived at the head of a lengthy rake of DMU cars on a Bank Holiday Monday service from Leeds on May 1st 1978. There had been ten of these 3-Car DMU's, fitted with headcode boxes and Rolls-Royce engines, supplied new to the North Eastern Region in 1959/60. The staff on the track on the right had a hose that was filling one of the DMU cars. Visible on the embankment are some of the decapitated steel lattice overhead line gantries for the Lancaster-Morecambe-Heysham electrics that ceased operating in January 1966. Martyn Hilbert.
13th May 1978
In refurbished white with blue stripe livery, a two-car Class 101 DMU was approaching Settle Junction with a Leeds to Morecambe service on May 13th 1978. The blanked over top marker lamp means the DMBS should be from the small 50198-209 batch, and although the number cannot be fully read it appears to end in a 2, so this is presumably 50202, which was a Neville Hill vehicle at the time. Martyn Hilbert.