First Gen DMU's

[Jamesb]

A few pics of various parcels units.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

 

Great pics Phil! Funny how we've managed to post shots of the same unit in service and preservation, within 3 minutes of each other!!

[Phil Mc]

Made me smile when I realised I must have been typing when you posted a pic of the same unit !

Here's a pic of another non-passenger unit.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

[Jamesb]

Indeed mate! Both feverishly bashing away at the keyboard and coming up with those results! 

[railsquid]

The G&WR's Class 117 on a Christmas special last December

 

P1050132 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

 

 

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P1050134 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

P1050174 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

[railsquid]

Detail shots

 

P1050144 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

 

P1050140 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

 

P1050139 by Rail Squid, on Flickr

[Rivercider]

As a kid in the 1960s I spent many hours travelling around the rail network in the West Country,

after brief memories of steam most of our family holiday trips and days out were in Laira allocated DMUs.

It was not until the late 1970s that I started to take photos.

Just how I remember them - a Laira class 118 set P461 at Exeter Central on its way to Exmouth, 24/7/80

 

cheers

 

 

[railsquid]

Another collection of pictures: http://www.philt.org.uk/BR/BR-dmu/i-hSVhZ7j

[rab]

I bought this on Ebay recently, as I don't have too many photos of all blue dmus at Paddington.

 

It is not the best quality but does show what was an everyday scene 40 years ago, and as such was often ignored by photographers in pursuit of larger traction.

 

 

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Tut, tut.

Is that an office bod I see

out on the tracks with no hi-vis

[jonny777]

As a kid in the 1960s I spent many hours travelling around the rail network in the West Country,

after brief memories of steam most of our family holiday trips and days out were in Laira allocated DMUs.

It was not until the late 1970s that I started to take photos.

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Just how I remember them - a Laira class 118 set P461 at Exeter Central on its way to Exmouth, 24/7/80

 

cheers

 

Which tempts me to ask the question, is there an easy way to tell a 118 unit from a 117 at a distance when numbers are unreadable?

[cornish trains jez]

Which tempts me to ask the question, is there an easy way to tell a 118 unit from a 117 at a distance when numbers are unreadable?

 

I think the headcode boxes are different size.

[robertcwp]

I think the headcode boxes are different size.

Not a totally accurate guide. Some 117s had the more curved top to the box like a 118. Some 118s were built new without marker lights (like 117s). All gets rather confusing.

[jonny777]

And while on the subject of 117s, here is L413 near West Ealing in 1991.

 

 

 

 

And L428 near Slough early in 1992

 

 

 

 

 

[The Stationmaster]

Tut, tut.

Is that an office bod I see

out on the tracks with no hi-vis

 

More likely a PWay subbie I reckon.

[carlw]

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cheers

 

Carl

 

 

[auld_boot]

ADB975659 at Westbury. Just noticed one end has odd buffer heads, one oval and one clipped.

 

 

[Andrew s]

Class 101 at MRC Butterley.

[auld_boot]

Class 101 on what I assume is a special as at that time Bristol-Taunton DMUs were 2 or 3 coach, taking the Bristol line at Cogload junction. There's four first class sections in this train.

 

[eastwestdivide]

Earlier in the thread, Tyseley's single-car units were mentioned. Here's one still with an SC prefix substituting as part of a 3-car unit at Leicester, 1982/83:

 

 

And a few livery variations from the collection...

 

Tyseley black cab windows, 1982/83 at Leicester:

 

Bedford-St Pancras hydraulic 127 repainted into green and on its way back south from overhaul and repainting (at Derby?). Also 1982/83 at Leicester:

 

GW-style chocolate and cream on the Greenford shuttle, 1985:

 

More green nostalgia on a Carlisle 108 at Seascale/Sellafield in 1987:

[Market65]

Hi. I have a few photo's of which many have already appeared in my East Yorkshire Railways thread. Anyway, here is one of a 3 car class 101 at Beverley station, late June, 1976. It has just arrived from Hull, and will work back to Hull in about half an hour.

 

 

Regards,

 

Rob.

[Phil Mc]

Another unique livery.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

[jonny777]

This livery was not unique, in the literal sense of the word; but I think this was the only single unit painted chocolate and cream.

 

W55020 with W55027 at Reading on a standard summers day in June 1985.

 

Judging by the platform they are in, I presume they are waiting to work a service to Basingstoke.

 

 

[Thomas]

Times they were a change in'

 

 

Lancaster, May 1987

 

 

Wigan North Western, September 1986

 

 

Manchester Victoria, April 1986

[cornish trains jez]

Another unique livery.

 

Cheers,

Phil.

 

I've always fancied modelling this train. I'll get round to it one day!

[eastwestdivide]

This livery was not unique, in the literal sense of the word; but I think this was the only single unit painted chocolate and cream.

 

W55020 with W55027 at Reading on a standard summers day in June 1985.

 

Judging by the platform they are in, I presume they are waiting to work a service to Basingstoke.

or maybe a stopper to Newbury/Bedwyn? Southern 3H units were still working Basingstoke-Reading into 1986-87 at least, when I lived down that way.

 

Here's a 3-car in chocolate and cream, Hereford 1985:

 

and that SYPTE 114 in "coffee and cream", Rotherham 1984:

which is also visible in that Manchester Vic shot a couple of posts further back.

Edited August 7, 2016 by eastwestdivide

[Rivercider]

Here is a view at Norwich with part of the class 105 allocation at home

On view at the depot are class 105 cars 51294, 51493 and 51272, 6/7/81

 

cheers