Class 127 DMU images
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27th February 1977
A Class 127 heads across the River Brent viaduct at Cricklewood en route to St Pancras on 27th February 1977. It is about to go under the North Circular Road bridge. This is a telephoto shot from the pedestrian steps up to the North Circular and the foreshortening belies the fact that the viaduct here carries 6 tracks. The concrete slabbing on the left is the M1 cutting wall. Pete LG99.
27th February 1977
Cricklewood North London on 27th February 1977 and a dmu arrives from the north into the station with a St Pancras service on a sea of trackwork past a forest of semaphore signals (do forests grow in seas???). A rather different everyday scene from today's. Pete LG99.
27th February 1977
Cricklewood (London) on 27th February 1977. Semaphore signals & two Midland signal boxes - Brent 1 & 2 - frame a 4-car St Pancras to Bedford dmu. The main gantry held 8 posts but the right-hand four are now armless. In the right background is Cricklewood shed. Pete LG99.
27th February 1977
The Midland Main Line out of St Pancras remained semaphore signalled in the 1970s. Here a blue-liveried Class 127 dmu is heading north through Cricklewood in north London past clear signals on 27th February 1977. Pete LG99.
26th June 1977
The beautiful old 1859 Midland Railway station seen here was demolished to make way for a modern station 200 yards away in 1978 when the line was electrified from Bedford to St Pancras (the BedPan line). This was taken on the morning of Sunday 26th June 1977 and the dmu seemed to be stabled in the platform rather than on a London service or perhaps just waiting for the first train of the day. Pete LG99.
26th June 1977
The original Midland Railway Bedford station of 1859 had beautiful ridge & furrow glass awnings with intricate wrought iron supports. Here one of the St Pancras service dmus stands in the Up platform on 26th June 1977. I believe that the signal box glimpsed through the bridge arches stands on the junction between the Hitchin & London lines. In 1978, with electrification, all this was swept away to build a new steel & glass station located 200yards further north. This was to avoid the tight curves into the station from the south as the original platforms were on the older Hitchin lines. For 100 years since the Midland built its own line to London, this hadn't been a problem but to aid the speeding up of services the new station was built on the avoiding line curve to the left of this view. Pete LG99.
26th June 1977
Bedford Midland station, Bedfordshire, 26th June 1977. The beautiful old 1859 Midland Railway station seen here was demolished to make way for a modern station 200yards away in 1978 when the line was electrified from Bedford to St Pancras (The BedPan line). The station was actually built when the Midland Railway reached London via the their line to the Great Northern Railway at Hitchin and onwards to Kings Cross. After problems with the GNR the MR opened its own line to the capital in 1868. This was taken on a Sunday morning and the dmu seemed to be stabled in the platform rather than on a London service or perhaps just waiting for the first train of the day. Pete LG99.
28th June 1977
M51593 is one of many Class 127 vehicles to be seen at Cricklewood on 28/6/77. David Mant.
July 1977
St Pancras station in July 1977 with a couple of Class 127s. Hugh Llewelyn.
30th July 1977
A Class 127 DMU heading northbound at West Hampstead on 30 July 1977. The bridge being re-built for electrification is the bridge which carries the 'North London Line' over the Midland Main Line just South of West Hampstead Thameslink Station. Image courtesy of the AndrewHA collection. British Railways.
13th August 1977
Before modernisation and electrification at Bedford. A Derby built class 127 multiple unit with M51643 leading on a St.Pancras service on 13th August 1977. Bob Belcher.
circa September 1977
Class 127 DMBS M51602 - a victim of the Luton collision in June 1976 - in Derby C&W Works. The slide process date is September 1977. Stuart Mackay Collection.
9th September 1977
A Class 127 set at Bedford, 9th September 1977. Ian McDonald.
9th September 1977
A Class 127 set at Bedford, 9th September 1977. Ian McDonald.
2nd January 1978
A Class 127 DMU seen at Elstree on 2nd January 1978. Roger Geach.
27th March 1978
The vastness of London St Pancras - the short dmu was sufficient for the Sunday morning traffic on offer. 27th May 1978. Pete LG99.
15th April 1978
The semaphore signaling's days are numbered at West Hampstead as a Class 127 DMU trundles past on the 15th April 1978. 54A South Dock.
27th June 1978
Class 127 DMBS M51641 in Cricklewood depot on 27 June 1978. It had been involved in a collision at Napsbury on 8 November 1977, it would be cut up at the depot by the end of the year by staff from Kings. Brian Daniels.
19th August 1978
Luton in pre-electrification days. A Class 127 in the station on the 19th August 1978. 54A South Dock.
20th October 1978
In the vanished World of the Midland main line before electrification, sunlight was reflecting on a Derby Class 127 four-car 'Red Triangle' DMU with Driving Motor Brake Second M51636 leading, whilst arriving at Cricklewood with Bedford to London St Pancras service on October 20th 1978. With Rolls-Royce engines and Hydraulic transmission fitted to the outer driving cars, there were 30 x 4-Car sets built at Derby in 1959. They spent all their lives working the intensive suburban services to and from Bedford, and by the time the last four-car set was withdrawn prior to electrification in 1983, the fleet was 'well worn'. Martyn Hilbert.