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Because the failed train would only normally have a driver and guard on board and the driver would have gone to lay assistance protection and has to remain there so only the Guard would be available as there wouldnt normally be any other crew available and having different versions depending on how many crew are available would just be confusing.

Thank you for the explanation.

Peter

This is interesting, Nidge (Rugd) will recognise the Driver (whose name I can't remember alas), and possibly the Secondman on the Class 47, while the location is of course very obvious to those of us who knew it.

 

Why did the Guard have to do all the work, holding up the drawbar with one hand and fitting the pin with the other?

What were the other three men doing? Just stood watching him?

I would have got that young lad down and had him hold the bar whilst I fitted the pin.

This is exactly the same procedure I used when towing in broken down buses, which was always a two man job.

Peter

Waggon & Maschinenbau, "brau" is perilously close to "Bräu" aka "brew"

Thank you for correcting the spelling.

I wasn`t sure of the spelling, so I checked it on the KWVR website and that is how it is spelt there.

Peter

At Crewe just prior to it`s re-modelling in 1984.

Peter

My final pic taken at York.

Peter

Does this one count?

Waggon & Maschinenbrau Railbus No. M79964 at Haworth KWVR.

Peter

Really must check this out this coming weekend, we've got to go there on a mobile birthday celebration.

Link to timetables

http://kwvr.co.uk/events/month/

Peter

Between trains at Oakworth, KWVR.

Peter

Two pic`s at Newcastle.

Peter

More at Sheffield.

Peter

This is what I call "ram packed".

Peter

If they've just spent hours idling on shed I thought it might be an ECS movement, or a positioning move, with the three coupled together to save on train paths.

That is correct. This is an ECS movement to Leeds station. Once there, the units are split to form three different services.

Peter

York

Peter

Manchester Piccadilly.

Peter

Four views at Manchester Victoria.

Peter

Some DMU`s at Huddersfield. All in the 1980`s.

Peter

A class 110 at Thornhill LNW Jct. on a Marsden - Leeds stopping service.

Looking the other way. A class 105 on the opposite working.

Ravensthorpe station visible under the bridge.

Peter

A 123 at the rear of a Hull train leaving Leeds station.

Peter

Peter, sorry to be a bore but what is that in the first photo please?

 

As SRman says it is a class 123 DMBS leading a Hull - Leeds train. There could well be a class 124 at the other end. At this time it was rare to see either of these classes as a complete train. I could never understand why.

Maybe someone here has some insider knowledge as to why. I can only guess that there were more centre cars than driving ones.

Peter

Carlisle

Twins at Glasgow Central

Peter

Last pics at Marsh Lane cutting.

More pollution at Neville Hill.

Peter

Three more at Marsh Lane.

A 4 car 124 unit coupled to a 2 car 105 passing a HST entering Neville Hill shed.

A 4 car class 108 passing the same HST which is one vehicle short of the 8 car trains on the ECML at the time.

A class 104 heading for Leeds station.

Peter

That photo shows a fairly typical hybrid twin unit, with a class 101DMBS leading, followed by a class 110 DMSL. You can tell the class of the second car from the roof vents, body side windows, the just visible four character head code box, and the tumblehome.

 

Here is another one, half a mile further on passing over Lockwood Viaduct.

Poor quality. It is a scan of a print. I cannot find the negs.

Another view of Lockwood Viaduct.

Peter