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Class 117 Pressed Steel 3-car DMUs


Orders

1959 Pressed Steel advert 1960 Pressed Steel advert

On the 16th October 1958 the British Transport Commission (BTC) placed orders for 168 high density vehicles - 57 Driving Motor Brake Secons, 57 Driving Motor Seconds and 54 Trailer Composites for the Western Region. The Pressed Steel Company was to build 123 of these at their Linwood Plant (near Paisley) and BRC&W to build the other 45 (which would become the Class 118s).

At the time 108 were for suburban services from Paddington, 15 for the Bristol-Taunton area, and 45 for services in Devon & Cornwall, west of Newton Abbott.

Delivery commenced in November 1959, with the final Pressed Steel set delivered a year later on the 5/11/60.