Set TS083

These formations have been noted:

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn

4th June 1986

On sunny mornings, I quite often used to leave home for work at around 08.00 and walk to my office, then in the town centre, via the railway line. I did this on 4 June 1986 because 55033 had recently been allocated to Tyseley after a spell in South Wales. It is seen here leaving the station as the 08.12 to Leamington Spa. Virtually everything in this photograph has changed. The Ministry of Food cold store has been replaced with a supermarket, the college of further education has been rebuilt and extended, and, of course, the semaphore signals have gone, being replaced with colour lights operated from Bearley Junction. Even the World War II air raid shelter, a concrete pipe buried in the ground, upon which I was standing, had disappeared. The class 116 unit in platform 2 will follow the bubble as far as Bearley, this being the 08.20 to Birmingham Moor Street. Peter Tandy.

29th June 1986

Class 121 bubble 55033 in Thame station with one of the Thame Phoenix shuttles on June 29 1986. These were organised by Hertfordshire Railtours, the station had closed to passengers in January 1963. Note the temporary station name added for the day! Julian Heard.

29th June 1986

55033 departs from Thame station with one of the Hertfordshire Railtours Thame Phoenix shuttles on June 29 1986. Julian Heard.

3rd July 1986

On 3 July 1986 55033 + 55004 + 55032 were on a diagram that included the 18.30 from Stratford-upon-Avon to Birmingham Moor Street. I lived near to the line in those days and had seen the train arrive from my kitchen window so had grabbed a camera, had a quick chat with the signalman and made my way to this spot with the gasholders, still in use at the time, and the middle starter signal prominent in the picture. The leading unit, 55033, was the one selected to receive Midline livery a few months later. Peter Tandy.

19th January 1987

Tyseley based Pressed Steel Class 121 single-car DMU 55033 (TS083) calls at Wilmcote with a lunchtime Leamington Spa to Stratford-upon-Avon service on 19 January 1987. Chris Morrison.

14th March 1987

Class 121 55033, set number TS083, is seen stabled at Tyseley carriage sidings in it's unique Midline livery on 14.03.1987. Andy Cole.

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