First Gen DMU's

[Rivercider]

Possibly posted before on another thread, but here is a photo from the first day of service

at the newly opened Worle Station on 24th September 1990.

I was working late turn in Bristol and decided to drive from Weston to Worle specifically to catch the train there.

There had been an opening ceremony earlier in the morning, but by this time normal service had commenced.

 

Bristol set B961 formed, I think, of 53608 and 54208 was one of a number of class 108 units drafted into Bristol

to replace the other various classes that had been either withdrawn or transferred away, it is working a Taunton to Bristol service.

The class 108 sets worked alongside the newly introduced class 150/155/158 sets but mostly on local services

from Bristol to Taunton, Severn Beach, Westbury, Frome etc. until replaced by class 143 units, 

 

cheers

Edited August 9, 2016 by Rivercider

[jonny777]

B961 certainly wandered around a bit that month, because here it is 2 weeks before your photo at Worle, leaving Westbury towards Bath on 11th September 1990.  I also have it as 53608 54208 at the time.

 

 

 

 

 

[Thomas]

 

101 313  Edinburgh, May 1985

 

 

Edinburgh, May 1985

 

 

101 332 Glasgow Queen Street, May 1985

 

 

101 689 Transfered to Manchester from Glasgow, Deal Street August 1993

[jonny777]

I think that Strathclyde livery looked very attractive on ageing DMUs.

[railsquid]

I dunno, always looks to me like the livery came through a space/time portal rooted in the 1970s. Mind you, beats the pants off anything post-privatisation.

[96701]

Isnt that UID location shot in post 114 southbound at Wigan?

 

Phil

Indeed it is, so I have edited my post.

[keefer]

 

101 332 parked over the baseboard joint at Glasgow Queen Street, May 1985

(apologies to Thomas)

Edited August 9, 2016 by keefer

[Peter Kazmierczak]

Cl.108 on the Swanage Railway at Corfe Castle.

 

[SGJ]

Old Oak Common open day

[SGJ]

Class 108 at Paignton in possibly 1987 ( I would have been 13 at the time )

 

[Market65]

Hi. Here is a hybrid unit at Beverley in May, 1988.  It is formed of a class 108 DMBS, class 101 TSL, and class 108 DMSL. On a service to Hull.

 

 

Regards,

 

Rob.

[royaloak]

Are you sure that last one is at Blackpool?...

Looks more like Paris to me! 

 

Edit-

Somebody beat me to it, and did a better job!

Edited August 9, 2016 by royaloak

[Derekstuart]

Comment deleted.

 

Yes, I admit that I was another one not noticing that half of RMW had already made a Paris related comment.

Edited August 10, 2016 by Derekstuart

[bingley hall]

British Rail Class 105 Cravens built driving trailer (E56143) 'on shed' at Stratford on 30 April 1974.

 

Gricers at Manchester Victoria inhale as a BRC & W Class 104 2-car DMU departs with a local service during September 1984.

 

A Bedford to St Pancras (London) service leaves Luton formed of a familiar 4-car Rolls-Royce powered Class 127 DMU used almost exclusively on these services - 27 October 1977.

[Rivercider]

Some views of DMUs in Bristol.

 

First at Temple Meads Station.

A pair of 3-car class 117 DMUs stand at Bristol Temple Meads. In the distance at platform 11 the set is probably for Weyouth. Nearest the camera in platform 12 is set B437 (51338, 59504, 51380) which was probably forming the 14.05 departure for Taunton my train home after working on early turn, 15/6/82 

 

 

Despite the Bristol area DMUs being allocated to Bath Road depot on paper in practice they were fuelled and serviced at Marsh Junction. It was not until the mid 1980s when the Bath Road Daily Shed was rebuilt and extended that DMUs were fuelled and serviced there. 

 

When I first started to take a serious interest in trains in the Bristol area there were no class 101 Met-Cam

sets allocated to the Western Region, but then four or five 3-car sets were transferred to Bristol, and later others followed. Here sets B805 and B801 are stabled at Marsh Junction, 18/6/80 

 

 

Cardiff allocated class 120 set 555 stands at the refuelling point at Bristol Marsh Junction,

in the right background is stored single power car 55033 (B133) following collision damage, 18/6/80

 

cheers

[Phil Mc]

977391 & 977392, (with 999602 in the middle.)

Derby, 2007.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

[Market65]

Hi. Here is a class 110 unit at Scarborough on Sunday, 26th, July, 1987.

 

 

Regards,

 

Rob.

[SGJ]

how not to take a photo, is it a 108 or 110 ?

 

[Market65]

It is a hybrid. Class 110, 101, and 110. But I see what you mean about posts and pillars. They can be such a problem.

 

Rob.

[SGJ]

Thanks rob, It's probably the only photo that I have in that case of a 110 unit in service, it must have been taken in about 1988 / 89 it really is a shame that the posts were there but it added a lot of excitement when the 89 came into Leeds

[lmsforever]

I always enjoyed traveling in a class 110  seemed a solid good riding unit with comfortable seats,shame about thier habit of catching fire!

[Market65]

Well, here is the interior of the one time first class saloon on a class 110 at Beverley, in about 1988. It had just arrived from Hull.

 

 

Regards,

 

Rob.

[SwissRailPassion]

The exteriors always looked nicer than the interiors. I travelled on so many in my youth and they were dreadful. No wonder passenger numbers were declining. Recently I went on a 101 at the NYMR and was transported back to a time of awful seats, filthy interiors and absolutely choking diesel fumes. The only positive was being able to see through the cab windows.

 

Today sitting in a 170 with wide windows, comfortable seats and a generally clean environment it seems a world away from the rubbishy DMUs we put up with for so many years.

[bingley hall]

The exteriors always looked nicer than the interiors. I travelled on so many in my youth and they were dreadful. No wonder passenger numbers were declining. Recently I went on a 101 at the NYMR and was transported back to a time of awful seats, filthy interiors and absolutely choking diesel fumes. The only positive was being able to see through the cab windows.

 

Today sitting in a 170 with wide windows, comfortable seats and a generally clean environment it seems a world away from the rubbishy DMUs we put up with for so many years.

 

While I can marvel at the speed, quietness and relative comfort of today's DMUs and EMUs, the grime, the noise and those unkempt interiors was exactly the attraction in my youth - greatly miss those teenage days bouncing around the countryside.

 

The 4-car Class 127 diesel-hydraulic DMUs were synonymous with St Pancras-Bedford suburban services for 24 years. The overhead wires are already in place and some of the Class 317 EMUs were in service by the time of this May 1983 view taken at St Pancras. The Class 127s only had a couple of months left in service.

 

Built by the Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Company, 2 x 2-car Class 100 diesel multiple units sit at Blaenau Ffestiniog during August 1983. 

Edited August 11, 2016 by bingley hall

[railsquid]

No doubt one day people will be looking back nostalgically at the 170s and Turbostars and what-have-you....

 

 

Class 100.jpg

Built by the Gloucester Carriage & Wagon Company, 2 x 2-car Class 100 diesel multiple units sit at Blaenau Ffestiniog during August 1983. 

 

 

This is clearly a fake - the sun is shining . Seriously, I did a double-take as my first impression was of somewhere hot and sunny like Spain.