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circa August 1989
Set: T327
Tyseley's hybrid class 119/116 unit T327, believed at the time to comprise cars 51071, 59444 and 51101, is seen near Budbrooke Junction, Hatton, Warwickshire in the summer of 1989. Bob Belcher.
Summer 1990
Set: T025
Tyseley based Derby class 114 DMU set T025 (vehicles 53005 + 54039) seen climbing towards Hatton in the summer of 1990. Bob Belcher.
20th June 1992
Set: T064
A hybrid unit of classes 116 and 101 (the set number seems to be T064) leaving the Stratford-upon-Avon branch at Hatton West Junction on 20 June 1992. The vegetation has grown considerably since that date meaning that it is no longer possible to obtain quite such a wide-angled view. The up main line had recently been relaid and this accounts for the gleaming ballast so evident in the picture. Peter Tandy.
20th June 1992
Set: T054
The 10.12 Stratford-upon-Avon to Leamington Spa service on 20 June 1992 was made up of class 116 vehicle 53838 leading followed by Class 101 53267 as I pictured it going slowly around the curve from Hatton West Junction into platform 3 of the station. The leading vehicle had recently received a high(ish) intensity headlight to supposedly increase visibility for those working on the track. The up main line had just been relaid and re-ballasted and it looks as if a few yards of the branch had had a bit of spare material dropped around it. Peter Tandy.
27th June 1992
Set: T072
The Stratford-upon-Avon to Leamington Spa services saw many different classes of DMU but I didn't see many 108s. This set, T072 (53933 + 51566), was climbing Hatton Bank on 27 June 1992 as it went towards a red signal protecting the 15mph junction for the Stratford branch. Peter Tandy.
19th March 1993
Set: T323
This scene on Hatton Bank was so commonplace that most photographers didn't "waste" a frame of film on it but I took a lot of shots of DMUs in my local area and these are now at least as interesting as some of the freight and locomotive-hauled passenger traffic. This one shows Tyseley's class 116 T323 working one of the then frequent Leamington Spa to Birmingham Moor Street local trains on 19 March 1993. The impressive building in the background is what was once called the Hatton Lunatic Asylum but this has long been demolished and replaced with a housing estate. Peter Tandy.
15th September 1998
Set: L842
While on Dark Lane bridge at Hatton on 15 September 1998 I was surprised to see a class 101 DMU coming down the bank from Hatton station. It turned out to be 101842 with cars 53321 + 53314 providing the power and traction for test coach Iris, 975010, the AEC engines in which rarely seemed to be in operation. Peter Tandy.
27th October 2004
Set: 960021
977723 arrives at Hatton station at lunchtime on the 27th October 2004, where it was held be a red light before heading out towards Leamington Spa. Clive Hanley.
27th October 2004
Set: 960021
977723 at Hatton station at lunchtime on the 27th October 2004, where it was held be a red light before heading out towards Leamington Spa. Note the Regional Railways door. Clive Hanley.
27th October 2004
Set: 960021
977723 at Hatton station at lunchtime on the 27th October 2004, where it was held be a red light before heading out towards Leamington Spa. Clive Hanley.
27th October 2004
Set: 960021
977723 departs Hatton station towards Leamington Spa at lunchtime on the 27th October 2004, after it had been held at a red light. Clive Hanley.
17th September 2005
Set: 901001
Class 101 was still active on the main line in 2005 in the form of 901001 (977391 + 999602 + 977392) being used as a test unit for Network Rail. This picture comes from 17 September 2005 as the train operated a 4Z08 from Derby through Hatton. Peter Tandy.
26th June 2007
Set: 960011
The single unit DMMU Pandora was booked to visit the South-West on 25 June 2007 and to return to Derby the following day. The latter move was running as 5Z21, the 09.00 from Bristol Barton Hill depot, being routed via Didcot, Reading, Didcot because of a possession at Didcot West Curve to Oxford, Hatton and Birmingham. 960011, formerly 55025, is reported as being an early candidate for withdrawal so even though the light was quite poor I decided to have an attempt at a shot. I think that such a short train always looks better in an identifiable location with some background rather than open countryside and as Hatton station is only about a 12 minute drive from my home, I went there. Here is Pandora some 39 minutes early passing the down platform. Peter Tandy.
4th September 2007
Set: 960011
I have always liked the single unit DMMUs and here, at Hatton North Junction, is 960011 "Pandora" coming from the north with 2Z21 Derby to Eastleigh spot on time at 12.21 on 4 September 2007. A gang of 3 permanent-way workers is conveniently hidden behind the unit; I don't normally mind track workers in my shots but with such a small train their presence in full orange high-visibility gear would have been a little distracting. Single unit DMMUs were a long-standing feature of the lines between Birmingham, Leamington Spa and Stratford and it was good to see one again, albeit in a very different livery to the blue & grey they carried for much of their working lives. Peter Tandy.
18th April 2008
Set: 960014
Some crew training runs in connection with forthcoming WSMR trains between Wrexham and London Marylebone using the single car DMMU 960014 took place on Friday 18 April 2008. The first run was to Birmingham New Street and the second up the main line to Leamington Spa. I am far more interested in seeing this old survivor of the early DMU fleet than the test runs with class 67s as these will be around for some time and I can get my photographs when the fuss has died down. This train was running about 15 minutes late at Hatton due to some earlier signalling problems and managed to run through the platforms at exactly the same time as a northbound Chiltern Trains class 165. I quickly grabbed this receding shot as the 960014 passed a load of untidy clutter on the ballast - the seemingly inevitable aftermath of major engineering work. Just why the mess can't be cleared when the work ends escapes me; it seems to invite vandalism. Peter Tandy.
18th April 2008
Set: 960014
On 18 April 2008 bubble car 960014 was booked to run straight through Hatton station on its return to Birmingham but through previous late running lost the path and was looped in Hattons Down Goods Loop to allow a down Arriva Trains Voyager to pass on the main line. It ran into the Stratford-upon-Avon Branch platform, rekindling memories of the many years that units of this type shuttled back and forth between Leamington and Stratford. Peter Tandy.
18th April 2008
977873 at Hatton on 18 April 2008, and if it were not for the branding on the sides of 960014 this picture could almost have been taken in the 1980s, at least if one ignores the modern signalling. In earlier days a train such as this would have turned left at the junction and gone to Stratford-upon-Avon but this working is a training run for WSMR crews and will take the spur onto the down main line at Hatton once the Voyager shown above has cleared the section. Peter Tandy.
18th April 2008
977873 takes the spur onto the main line as it departs Hatton station on 18 April 2008 while on a training run for WSMR crews. Peter Tandy.
23rd June 2008
Set: 960014
In June 20018 the Chiltern Trains Bubble, 960014 (977873), was being use in connection with Arriva Cross Country crews learning the Chiltern Line and parts of the network between Acton and Euston in readiness for weekend diversions of Voyagers over the route. There are a couple of runs during the day but this, at Hatton on 23 June 2008, was the last and the Arriva crew has obviously been dropped off somewhere and 960014 is heading back to Tyseley for the night. These single units have long been a favourite of mine and this train was definitely the highlight of the afternoon for me. Peter Tandy.
7th October 2010
Set: 121020
I have always had a soft spot for the single unit "bubble" cars that used to work branch lines; indeed my first ever train ride was in one of these when they worked the Stratford-upon-Avon to Leamington Spa shuttles. One of the remaining class 121 units in still in regular service for Chiltern Railways and 121020 was booked to run from Aylesbury to Kidderminster (SVR) on Thursday 7 October 2010 where it is due to perform at a gala over the coming weekend. I think that the blue colour scheme carried by this unit is most attractive so went to a bubble-sized spot on Hatton Bank where I knew that the sun would be in just the right direction at a little over 14.00. Just after I arrived, 66154 ran into the Down Goods Loop with 6M48, the 10.02 Southampton to Bescot loaded train of Ford cars. I took this to mean that 55020 was close behind and indeed, it appeared no more than two minutes later. Peter Tandy.
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