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Vehicle 60648


Blue Pullman

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: -
Length: 65ft or 66ft
Coupling Code: -
Coupling Type: -
Gangway Type: -
Lot Number: 30555
Diagram: 673

Allocations

May-60 New to 82B (Bristol Marsh Junction)
circa Jun-64 Transferred to 82A (Bristol Bath Road)
4w/e 23/11/68 Transferred to 86A (Cardiff Canton)
May-73 Withdrawn from CF (Cardiff Canton)

Disposal

Scrapped by Bird Group, Cardiff

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


60096 60646 60736 60744 60748 60738 60648 60098 Noted 06/11/70 - at Cardiff1
60096 60646 60736 60744 60748 60738 60648 60098 Noted 19/11/70 - at Old Oak Common1
60093 60738 60748 60749 60739 60648 60649 60099 Noted 15/01/1972 - on a Bristol - Leeds BR Football special

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers

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The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: June 1967

Metropolitan Cammell Class 251 8-car "Blue Pullman" dmu Nos.W60099, W60649, W60739, W60749, W60748, W60738, W60648, W60098 on the Paddington-Swansea (High St) "South Wales Pullman" with Type 1 1,000hp power car leading, in the Nanking Blue & White Pullman livery with an all-yellow warning front end that unfortunately covered the Pullman emblem, at Neath (General), 06/67. Hugh Llewelyn.

DMU

Date: 26th April 1973

The South Wales Pullman Cardiff on 26th April 1973 passing Cardiff Canton Depot. From the front, 60098, 60648, 60738, 60748, 60749, 60739, 60649 & 60092. Note the chimneys of the East Moors Steeelworks on the skyline behind the train (closed in 1978 and now long gone) and the girders of the old Arms Park on the far left (also gone replaced by Millenium Stadium in 1998). Image by John Wiltshire. Peter Brabham Collection.