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Class 101 DMU Birmingham New Street, Sept 1983. By mid-1983, DMU vehicles in rail blue were increasingly scarce so finding Metro-Cammell dmu cars M53310 and M59128 still sporting their blue livery in September was certainly a nice surprise. Robert28194.
Metro-Cammell Class "101" Local Passenger 2-car dmu No.M54055 (although there is no 4) and M53228 of the 1957 batch in Rail Blue & Grey livery with all yellow front ends, at Barmouth with a Machynlleth service, 09/83. Hugh Llewelyn.
Class 101 DMU set 101363 approaches Stirling from the south on 1 September 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A general view of early-1980s Brough station with a pair of 2-car Metro-Cammell sets heading in opposite directions on 2nd September 1983. E56394 is the nearest vehicle to the camera. The old shelters and wooden ticket office are long gone, as are the cast "tree-branch" seats. Syd Young.
101 312 (51237 + 59542 + 53138) seen at Keith Junction with an un-named Grampian Railtours trip over the Dufftown branch, 3rd September 1983. Mike Cooper Collection.
A smart pair of 2-car Metro-Cammell sets with E54406 nearest the camera stands at Filey on 3rd September 1983 before heading back to Scarborough with a special service from the annual Filey Convention. The station at this date still had it's footbridge, crossing gates, semaphore signals and signalbox. Syd Young.
101 312 (53138 + 59542 + 51237) seen in Dufftown with an un-named Grampian Railtours train in the days before it became a preserved line. 3rd September 1983. Norman Smart.
A 3 car Class 101 DMU departs Norwich Thorpe on an ECS working to the depot on Monday 5th September 1983. Driving Motor Composite E53181 leads Trailer Brake 2nd E59095 and another Driving Motor Composite E53168. The Trailer Brake 2nd, E59095, is one of only 28 such vehicles constructed out of a total of 760 Metropolitan Cammell DMU vehicles and began life in late 1957 as part of a 4 car set based on Tyneside. The day after I had scanned this view, I acquired a DVD entitled “Old Dunfermline From the Air”. Imagine my surprise when one of the scenes depicted a 3 car Metro Cammell DMU at my childhood local station, Dunfermline Lower, including one of those Trailer Brake 2nds. Brian McDevitt.
Seen crossing at Battersby on the 8th of September 1983 are the 11.14 Darlington to Whitby service and the 11.10 Whitby to Darlington, both formed of Class 101 DMUs. The KDH Archive.
Met Cam and Swindon Cross-Country DMUs pass at a busy Machynlleth station on 9th September 1983. David Scott.
A Class 101 DMU at Bensham, Gateshead, on 14/09/1983, seen heading from Newcastle across the Tyne Valley route to Carlisle. The tracks nearest the camera are the East Coast Mainline - the train will eventually pass under these. Graeme Phillips Collection.
With a backdrop of a cloud-wreathed Cader Idris range, the 12.35 from Machynlleth to Pwllheli (formed of a total of 7 dmu cars) crosses Barmouth bridge on the Cambrian coast line on September 22, 1983. There is a two-car Class 101 on each end, the centre set is a Class 120 with 101 centre car. Tom Burnham.
Darlington DMU depot (code DN) on 24/09/83, then home to an allocation of Class 101s for Teesside services, but closed a couple of years later. The roof of a Class 31 can be glimpsed at the back left. Graeme Phillips Collection.
A Trans-Clyde branded Met Cam interloper visits Haymarket depot, October 1983. Alistair Ness.
The damaged front has been cut away in preparation for repairs to start on Sc 51466 at Eastfield Depot, this really was a job for the Workshops but in an effort to manage costs and see what a depot could do Eastfield undertook the repair themselves, it took several months but a very good job was done and the staff were rightly proud of this. October 1983. Spannerman37025.
Met-Camm Class 101 set B823 (51505 leads, presumably with 59082 + 51511) at Severn Tunnel Junction in October 1983. Michael Mensing.
E53171 + E53156 arrive into Whitby station where 40 122 sits on October 1, 1983. John Carter.
Damaged DMBS Sc51466 under repair at Easfield Depot on 10/10/83. Spannerman37025.
Damaged DMBS Sc51466 under repair at Easfield Depot on 10/10/83. Spannerman37025.
On the 11th October 1983 C803 (51450 and 51522) leads a 3-car Class 101 on the 13.23 Milford Haven - Swansea near Pembrey and Burry Port. Hamish Stevenson.
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