Class 116 Derby 3-car Suburban DMUs
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1961
A Derby suburban triple DMU on a Barry Island service next to autocoach W192W in Merthyr Tydfil station sometime in 1961. Stuart Mackay Collection.
50901
Set Number: C320
circa early/mid 1970s
Class 116 DMU set C320, presumably 50901 closest, in Cardiff Queen Street station, Cardiff Bute Road on the destination blind. Date unknown, circa early/mid-1970s. The station still has totems, seen on the left platform, and the clock reads about 2.43pm. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date unknown
A Class 116 DMU in Coryton station circa early/mid-1970s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
53890
Set Number: T320
1990
In 1990 Tyseley based class 116 dmu T320 is seen at Crewe forming a train for Llandudno. At that time this unit was formed of 53890, 59720 and 51138 - 53890 is nearest the camera. The centre trailer 59720 is a class 115 vehicle fomerly part of an Allerton based four car unit and was built as a TCL, but subsequent declassified. 53890 was Cardiff based until 1966 when it moved to Birmingham. 51138 came to Tyseley from the Western Region in 1976 - probably for the enhancement of the Cross City service Tony Walmsley.
spring 1980
In the spring of 1980 a class 116 unit rests at the buffer stops of platform 2 at Birmingham Moor Street. Note the recess under the adjacent platform which used to accommodate the loco traverser. Tony Walmsley.