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Class 100 Gloucester RC&W 2-car DMUs

GRC&W Material

This page contains material relating to the vehicles produced by the builders, Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited. More details on the company can be found in the DMU builders section.

These were published in trade magazines. The first shows Sc50340 and presumably Sc56095. The second shows two sets on a Llandudno-Blaenau North service, the same image was also used in the Summer 1958 DMU ABC (page 50) credited to K Field.

Diagrams

These general arrangement drawings had better details than the BR diagrams.

Order book

These three pages from the company's order book contain many details about the vehicles. Courtesy of Evan Green-Hughes.

Batch one power cars

Batch one trailer cars

Batch two

Works Pictures

The GRC&W company records, including the Works photograph albums, are now held by Gloucestershire Archives (collection reference D4791) and we are grateful for their permission to reproduce these images here.

Construction

Three fabricated sections which will form solebars.

Probably a touched up version of the first image.

A cantrail section in a jig that allows easy rotation.

Corrugated steel floor sections.

End longitudinal units.

A bolster unit for a bogie.

An underframe, sitting upside down, and the 'centre castings' which sit on the bogie (and are held in place by a 'centre pin' through the hole) can be seen. It also shows the longitudinal corrugated steel sections forming the floor, also know as 'key sheeting'.

The bodyside for a DMBS in the assembly jig.

A sub-assembly, possibly a vehicle inner end.

A roof frame with half the panelling added.

A completed motor bogie.

Testing

Strain gauges around a doorway during stress testing.

Strain gauges on the bolster quarter.

Corrugated metal with gauges at intervals

Strain gauges on the floor.

Metal vehicle body with no doors or windows

A bodyshell during stress testing.

Completed Vehicles

The company allocated a 'photo no.' to the two batch one vehicle types - 5409 for the DTCL and 5410 for the DMBS. The order book above noted that no images were taken of batch two vehicles.

The first two exterior image feature Scottish Region vehicles, new in May 1957. The interior images are undated, but are presumed to be taken at the same time since they appeared in the railway press soon after.

3/4 exterior view of completed Class 100

Negative 5-57/7
A new two-car set, location unknown.

3/4 exterior view of completed Class 100 arriving in station

Negative unknown
Sc56095 and presumably Sc50340, location unknown.

Negative 5-57/10 (5410)
Interior of DMBS.

Negative 5-57/13 (5410)
Luggage compartment in DMBS.

Negative 5-57/14 (5409)
Interior of DTCL taken in first class saloon.

Class 100 DMBS driver's compartment horizontal view

Negative 5-57/16 (5410)
Drivers compartment DMBS.

Class 100 DMBS driver's compartment vertical view

Negative 5-57/17 (5410)
Drivers compartment DMBS.

Negative 5-57/2? (5410)
Guards area in DMBS.

Class 100 DTCL lavatory looking at toilet

Negative 5-57/21 (5409)
Lavatory, DTCL.

Negative 5-57/22 (5409)
Lavatory, DTCL.

These four matted images have a date of October 1957 (which matches the delivery dates of M50358 + M56113) on the information boards and were presumably taken on GRC&W premises.