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circa May 1954

Covers off. A Derby Works image (negative 54/651) showing the centre section of a West Riding Derby Lightweight power car. With the covers off the boxes on the underframe the equipment inside can be seen, two contain EP vales and third (closest) contains the battery isolation switch, fuses and relays. To its right are two sets of engine start/stop buttons, nowhere near the engine! Image courtesy of Chris Booth. British Railways.


 DMU

circa May 1954

A Derby Works image (negative unknown, circa 54/65x) showing the underframe equipment with covers off on a West Riding Derby Lightweight DMU. Image courtesy of Chris Booth. British Railways.


 DMU

circa mid-1956

An official image (Derby Works negative 56/659) taken during Derby Heavyweight construction circa mid-1956. It shows a completed bogie being lifted (or dropped), and an underframe with vacuum pipes being fitted. British Railways.


 DMU

1957

A Derby Works photo (negative 57/684) showing a door lock fitted to a Derby suburban triple DMU. The image was used by the lock manufacturer, Kayes, for advertising. British Railways.


 DMU

circa 1957

A bogie from a Wickham power car. Wickham.


 DMU

circa early 1957

E50000 underframe detail; Smiths heater with engine behind, radiator to the right. Circa early 1957. Rolls Royce.


 DMU

circa early 1957

E50000 details; Smiths heater with engine behind, radiator to the right. Circa early 1957. Rolls Royce.


 DMU

Unknown Date

An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative unknown) showing the underside of a Rolls-Royce powered vehicle. The light coloured square box close of the camera is the SE4 gearbox, with a dynamo to the right. Metropolitan Cammell.


 DMU

circa April 1957

A Derby Works image (negative 57/470) showing the ends of TC W59000 (left) and DMBS W50050 (right) when new circa April 1957. The gear on the end of the centre car is for the communication cord. Note the far side has a footstep and handrail for staff to reach the reset 'butterfly', on the closest side they are not fitted but there are bolts where they should be. The writing on the lower corner reads in different rows 'C' (for composite, the vehicle type) 'TRIPLE' (the formation), 'S.P. 3-59' ('Shopping Proposal' - its next works date), 'NEW - 2001' (2001 is the code for Derby Works), '11-3-57' and then a paint date which is not readable. British Railways.


 DMU

circa early 1957

A Derby Works image (negative 57/607) showing the inner ends of E50000 (right) and E56000 (left) - the Rolls-Royce powered Derby Heavyweight. British Railways.


 DMU

circa June 1957

A Wickham image (negative W/274) showing DMBS E50415 circa June 1957. This was a matted version of another print that was widely distributed of the vehicle outside the company works. Wickham.


 DMU

circa 1958

At Swindon Diesel School A. Nash explains "toggling" on a railcar gearbox to the students - fitters C Hodgetts (Slough), LT Bennett and JW Phillips (Reading). The image appeared on the cover of the November 1958 Western Region edition of the staff "British Railways Magazine". British Railways.


 DMU

1958

A Derby Works image (negative 58/951) showing the radiator on the No.1 side of a Derby Heavyweight DMBS, presumed to be E50003, in late 1958. This was type fitted with the Albion engines, originally they had a smaller version when fitted with 150hp engines. British Railways.


 DMU

circa February 1958

The first of four images recording damage under Cravens DMSL M50797 circa February 1958 where it seems the cardan shaft has ripped off the output end of the gearbox. Note the puncture damage to the vacuum cylinder on the left. Only this print had any text on the rear, nothing about the incident just details about the vehicle including 'In service Oct 57 - Feb 58' and 'Working Derby, Notts, & Leicester'. British Railways.


 DMU

circa February 1958

The second of four images recording damage under Cravens DMSL M50797 circa February 1958 where it seems the cardan shaft has ripped off the output end of the gearbox, this one being a close up of the damaged gearbox. British Railways.


 DMU

circa February 1958

The third of four images recording damage under Cravens DMSL M50797 circa February 1958 where it seems the cardan shaft has ripped off the output end of the gearbox. This one shows the part of the gearbox that was ripped of along with the end of the cardan shaft still attached. British Railways.


 DMU

circa February 1958

Damage under a DMU vehicle. The cover has been knocked of the wiring channel, the pipe on the last has been dented and the downward facing cylinder has also been damaged. This could be under Cravens DMSL M50797 circa February 1958 where other images record damage after the cardan shaft ripped off the output end of the gearbox. British Railways.


 DMU

circa September 1958

An official image (Derby Works negative 58/731) showing underframe items on the number two side of a power car from a four-car set. Taken at Cleobury Mortimer on the Tenbury Wells branch circa September 1958. Upper left is a Smiths heater, beneath is a vacuum reservoir and the electrical box to its right is the heater relay/control box (meaning the heating controls were of the through train type). The lighter coloured box on the right contains the relays that operate the throttle motors, gearboxes and final drive. British Railways.


 DMU

8th June 1959

A Swindon Works image - negative 5AA 617 - showing 'Derby Diesel Bogie - Vacuum Cylinder Trunion'. This would be welded to the inside of the bogie to hold one of the two pivot points on a vacuum cylinder. 5AA was the accident series recording damage and with this being taken at Swindon it is likely from one of the Derby Suburban triple sets - the Class 116s. British Railways.


 DMU

circa November 1959

The Rolls-Royce engine under a Cravens power car. It is fitted with hydraulic transmission - the Twin-Disc torque converter is on the left hand side. Prominent on this side of the engine is the fuel pump, with four flexible air lines coming from pipes behind the solebar to the throttle motor at the bottom of the fuel pump - each pipe corresponding to a position on the drivers throttle controller in the cab. Cravens.

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