Class 103 Park Royal 2-car DMUs
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13th May 1963
Neatly posed under the bridge at Hednesford station are a matching pair of Park Royal twin car DMUs, later known as class 103s. The blind of the right hand one is for Brownhills and the (rear) blind of the other is Rugeley Trent Valley. The position of the guards compartment can be located by the mailbag which has been thrown out onto the platform. Hednesford station closed in 1965 but in 1989 it was re-opened. Once very much a freight and diversionary line it now sees a regular train service and is at present being electrified, this will fill the Walsall to Rugeley T.V. electrification gap.
Image taken by Peter Shoesmith on 13/05/1963. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
2nd August 1963
Dudley Port low level looks in a parlous state as a gleaming green 2 car Park Royal diesel multiple unit draws in with a train to Walsall. On the skyline is the large LNWR signal box and the fence of Dudley Port High level station gaunt against the light grey sky. In the grassland to the right a few corrugated iron buildings lie rusting and the abutments of the closed railway only support weeds.
Image taken by Peter Shoesmith, 2 August 1963. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
19th September 1964
The 2.40pm Birmingham New Street - Redditch service is seen at Barnt Green formed of a Park Royal DMU on 19 September 1964. Michael Mensing.
13th May 1963
A pair of 2 car Park Royal units are arriving at Cannock Station on 13 May 1963. The station was on the Walsall to Rugeley line. Today the line is a useful diversionary route and has a regular passenger service to Rugeley again once again (it lost the previous services in 1965) sadly little freight now uses the line since the closure of Rugeley Power station. The scene here has been completely eradicated.
Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
4th November 1966
Parcels at Penkridge.
Several boxes have been ejected from the guards compartment of the Stoke-on-Trent bound Park Royal DMU. The lady porter is Mrs Harris (nee Cooper) she is heading purposefully towards them, obviously intending to carry them to join the pile she has assembled on the facing platform. Architecturally 'functional' is the best that can be said for Penkridge station but the appearance is clean and tidy, no doubt the work of the lady in the picture, the Stationmaster was Mr Humphreys.
Image taken by Peter Shoesmith on 4 November 1966. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.