Set 910

The set number was suffixed with a small "A" or "B" which corresponded with the car branded for Newspapers (A) or Express Parcels (B)

These formations have been noted:

Formation Sources
1: Eddie Knorn

circa 1986

Class 127 parcels unit 910 (55980 + 55970) seen at Blackpool North circa 1986/7. David Faircloth.

23rd March 1986

Stood alongside milepost 0 on what was the old Preston & Lancaster route, a former Bedford - St Pancras Class 127 Diesel-Hydraulic DMU, converted to a Parcels Unit complete with roller-shutter doors, was stabled for the weekend in Croft Street Sidings adjacent to Preston PSB on March 23rd 1986. Formed of cars 55980 & 55970 (Set 910), the pair was one of 11 similar units that had been formed/converted in 1985. Martyn Hilbert.

23rd March 1986

Ex Class 127 Parcels/Newspaper DMU formed of cars M55970 + M55980 (910) was stabled between duties at Croft Street Sidings at Preston on March 23rd 1986. Eleven of these two-car DMU's fitted with roller shutter doors had been converted from former Bedford - St Pancras Class 127 Driving Cars in 1985. They were all withdrawn in 1989. Martyn Hilbert.

22nd September 1986

Converted parcels DMU 55980/55970 at Bletchley on 22 September 1986. Lewis Bevan.

1988

55970 with 55980 - Longsight parcels set 910 at Manchester Piccadilly. Robert Chilton Collection.

22nd May 1988

Ex Class 127 DMU (55980 + 55970), now in Parcels service, heads south over Grafton Lane, just south of Hereford between the site of Redhill Junction and Merryhill/Redhill Tunnel, 22nd May 1988. Hereford Driver Neil Marsh is at the controls. John Crooks.

8th April 1989

Class 127 55970, set number 910, is seen stabled at Tyseley along with sister car 55980 on 08.04.1989. It has had the 'Newspapers' text removed from the bodyside. Andy Cole.

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