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Two mixed-livery Class 115 DMUs stabled at Aylesbury on 7 April 1980. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Marylebone-bound class 115 DMU calls at Gerrards Cross in May 1980. The line was opened in 1906, a joint venture built by the Great Western & Great Central Railways. The line through here was rebuilt towards the end of the 1980s and became double track, with the platform extended over the two right-hand lines. Kevin Lane.
A mixed livery 115 at Aynho Platforms, 16/6/80. Ian McDonald.
A Class 115 DMU set with Special on the destination blind at Oxford on 10 September 1980. The first three vehicles appear to be freshly painted - the power car in blue/grey and the centre cars in plain blue. Brian Daniels.
A Class 115 DMU in Banbury station on 26 January 1981. Rob Edwards.
A mixed livery Class 115 set in Aylesbury station on May 4, 1981. Robert Frise.
A Class 115 DMBS (it looks recently repainted) on the rear of a loco-hauled train with 83007 at the front. Taken at 11:43 on Wednesday 6 May 1981 and seems to be to the south west of Rugby with the radio masts in the background. Stuart Mackay Collection.
At West Hampstead, the line out of Marylebone runs alongside the Metropolitan line. On May 6, 1981, we see a train of A stock heading for Uxbridge alongside a Marylebone to Aylesbury train formed of a class 115. The A stock was built by Cravens of Sheffield and entered service 1961-63 and operated until 2012. Jeremy Chapter.
Three different liveries on one four-car train. The leading car is all-over monastral blue, coaches two and four are in "blue band" livery, used for refurbished units from around 1974. Coach 3 is in blue/grey livery. The train is working from London Marylebone to High Wycombe and is seen at West Hampstead on May 6, 1981. Jeremy Chapter.
A Class 115 set is seen at Princes Risborough on June 17, 1981. Steve Davies Collection.
A Class 115 at Aylesbury in July 1981. Kevin Lane.
Hertfordshire Railtours' "Fenbasher" tour operated on 4 July 1981 and repeated later in the month. This is the original, formed 51661/59661/59676/51881 with the organiser, the late John Farrow walking alongside the train. Class 115 normally worked out of Marylebone but this tour ran from St Pancras to Kings Cross. Jeremy Chapter.
Railtour to Cross Princes? The late John Farrow is seen in the cab of a class 115 suburban dmu adjusting the blind display and coming up with "Cross Princes" which must be somewhere between Gerrards Cross and Princes Risborough, more usual destinations for this Marylebone-based unit. This was the Hertfordshire Railtours "Fenbasher" railtour on 4 July 1981, taken at the BR/Kings Lynn Docks boundry on the short Lynn docks branch. Jeremy Chapter.
Hertfordshire Railtours' "Fenbasher" tour operated on 4 July 1981 and was repeated later in the month. This is the original, formed 51661/59661/59676/51881, at Wisbech. This class of Derby Suburban diesel units spent most of their working lives operating the routes out of Marylebone. Jeremy Chapter.
The Hertfordshire Railtours "Fenbasher" rail tour is seen at Abbey on the former Downham and Stoke Ferry railway. Formation of the tour was 51881+59676+59661+51661, all Marylebone-based class 115 Derby Suburban coaches. This was the 4 July 1981 running of the tour, which ran again three weeks later. Jeremy Chapter.
Hertfordshire Railtours' "Fenbasher" tour operated on 4 July 1981 and repeated later in the month. This is the original, formed 51661/59661/59676/51881 with Hertfordshire Railtours' John Farrow just inside the fence. Class 115 normally worked out of Marylebone but this tour ran from St Pancras to Kings Cross. Jeremy Chapter.
The Hertfordshire Railtours "Fenbasher" is seen at Middleton Towers on 4 July 1981. It was formed of a Class 115 DMU containing 51661 + 59661 + 59676 + 51881. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 115 DMU heading for Marylebone at Harrow-on-the-Hill on 29 July 1981. Stuart Mackay Collection.
The Quaintonian shuttle on 31/8/81 at Quainton Road. Vehicles unknown. Robert Frise.
The Quaintonian shuttle at Quainton Road, 31/8/81. Vehicles not recorded. Robert Frise.