Single DMU

[class37418stag]

Hello 

please excuse my English 

 

I believe class 128 parcel diesel unit has hauled light GUV 

so class 121 or 122 has been hauled light wagon ?

 

i has searched online and can’t find 

 

thank you

[The Stationmaster]

Class 121 and Class 122 SPCs were allowed to take a tail load of 35 tons except on the steepest of gradients.  There was a photo recently on another thread of one with a single loaded milk tank (28 tons)

[Steven B]

The Railcar website has information and photos of single can units with tail traffic, including a single car unit hauling a GUV parcels van.

 

The Mk1 based DMUs were fitted with vacuum train brakes and so wouldn't have hauled an air-braked wagon. Parcels vans were common (BG, Fruit D, Fish vans, std vans), but some single car units were also put to use on engineers trains :

 

Steven B.

[The Johnster]

BR standard BGs were 32tons, GUVs 30tons; AFAIK all bogie parcels vehicles in service during the time these single units were in operation were capable of being hauled by them, so long as they were vacuum braked of course.  There were rare occurrences of them hauling passenger coaches with passengers aboard, but of course there was no means of them heating the coaches.

 

 

Edited October 30, 2020 by The Johnster

[KeithMacdonald]

@class37418stag As @Steven B said, the Railcar website is a good place to look. They have a good image library.

 

For example:

https://www.railcar.co.uk/images/7047

 

They say:

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A fascinating picture of an unidentified Gloucester Class 128 (possibly W55991) carrying what appears to be non-standard blue livery with white cab roofs and seemingly without yellow warning panels, although the reality is the van has a yellow painted corridor connection. The DMPV is working with an unidentified green liveried Derby Class 116 DMBS (probably 50819 or 50862), the pair pulling a BR(SR) green liveried CCT at Twyford and thought to be heading east - c.1968.

 

[The Stationmaster]

14 hours ago, KeithMacdonald said:

@class37418stag As @Steven B said, the Railcar website is a good place to look. They have a good image library.

 

For example:

https://www.railcar.co.uk/images/7047

 

They say:

 

It's actually approaching Twyford West (aka Land's End to locals in order to differentiate it from the original Twyford West)  running junction on the Up Relief Line  so it is indeed heading east.

[The Johnster]

And it's in a standard livery, albeit a short lived one.  The all over blue livery was adopted in 1966 along with the arrows of indecision emblem (as a result of positive public acceptance of D1744 and the XP64 train), unlined blue with brown undercarriage being the new livery for all locos except steam, and for non-ganwayed coaches, NPCCS, and mulitple units.  The large yellow warning panels were not introduced until 1967.  White roof ends on dmus were retained but some were painted over, and the white window surrounds of Hymeks and Deltics were retained was well, but not in conjunction with the large yellow ends.  I believe white roof ends were retained on the LMR 25kv electric locos as well until the large warning panels appeared. 

 

Large warning panels were a safety issue and applied to locos and multile units in green and other liveries.

[KeithMacdonald]

@class37418stag - have you seen the DMU with parcels vans here?