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Battery Multiple Unit - Derby 2-car BMU

Introduced: 1958
Coupling code: None
Underframe: 56ft 6in
Engines: None
Transmission: Electric

Battery Multiple Unit

British Railways experimented with a 2-car battery set on the Deeside line.

Using new Derby Lightweight bodies, conversion work done at Cowlairs included adding a battery and traction motors. It began work on the Aberdeen to Ballater route from 1958.

After four years it was withdrawn from passenger use but taken on by the Railway Technical Centre at Derby for use in automatic train operation tests. It is now preserved.

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Non-Passenger Use
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Details about the unit in preservation can be found here.

The following publications were consulted in the preparation of this article:
Railway Gazette; 25 Years of Research - C. Marsden; British Railways Scottish Region Staff Magazine; Scottish Urban & Rural Branch Lines - G. O’Hara; The Deeside line - Dick Jackson; Railway Observer; Railway Bylines Summer Special No.1.
All pictures are official ScR images unless otherwise stated.

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