Unidentified Class 103 DMU images
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1958
No doubt this is the photographers wife posing in front of a Park Royal set in a wet and dreary Blaenau Ffestiniog during Easter 1958. Note the 6G (Llandudno Junction) shed code painted in the bufferbeam. Stuart Mackay Collection.
1958
Two Class 103 units in Birmingham New Street in 1958. They are forming the 4.17pm to Walsall, withheld at Burton-on-Trent. Michael Mensing.
30th May 1959
A Park Royal twin set arrives into Walsall station on May 30th, 1959. Michael Mensing.
21st June 1959
A Park Royal twin set is seen east of Tamworth with the 11.15am Rugby Midland to Stafford service on Sunday 21st June, 1959. Michael Mensing.
5th September 1959
A Class 103 at Penns on the 5th September 1959, operating the 6.54pm Walsall - Birmingham New Street. Michael Mensing.
25th February 1961
A Park Royal twin at Coventry on 25 February 1961. Michael Mensing.
March 1962
A two-car Park Royal and a three-car Metro-Cammell seen at Stetchford in March 1962. Michael Mensing.
16th June 1962
In Birmingham New Street on June 16 1962 is a Park Royal and GRC&W set which have arrived on the 3:50pm ex-Rugeley (TV) and will now work the 5.10pm return. Note the 21F shed code on the buffer beam, this was Rycroft depot which had sixteen of the twenty Park Royal sets allocated to it on this date, the other four (50411-4) were at Watford. The DMBS has no whiskers, but the cover for the route indicator is from a vehicle that had whiskers. Michael Mensing.
1st September 1962
A two-car Park Royal DMU approaching Harrow & Wealdstone station with the branch train from Belmont on the Stanmore branch, 1 September 1962. John Cosford.
1st September 1962
A Park Royal DMU at Belmont on 1 September 1962 with the freight-only line to Stanmore in the background. John Cosford.
2nd September 1962
Looking out from a Park Royal DMU entering Platform 10 at Watford Junction on the branch train from St. Albans Abbey, 2 September 1962. John Cosford.
2nd September 1962
A Park Royal 2-car DMU leaving St. Albans Abbey station for Watford on 2 September 1962. There are four signals here as the Great Northern Railway opened a connecting line from Hatfield in 1865 which meant that there were two possible routes out of the station. The GNR line closed to passengers in 1951 and to freight in 1968. John Cosford.
2nd September 1962
A Park Royal DMU at St. Albans Abbey station at the end of the branch line from Watford Junction on 2 September 1962. The station was built by the London & North Western Railway in 1858. John Cosford.
Unknown Date
Two Class 103 Park Royal DMUs at Chester, date unknown. Chester General in its heyday and looking like a proper station. With the goods shed and the footbridge in the background 2 class 103 units are stabled awaiting their next service to Birkenhead Woodside. These units spent a lot of their working life in the Chester area working to Birkenhead, Manchester and into north Wales. Edgehillsignallman@Flickr.
1963
A Park Royal DMU set (which looks freshly painted) - coupled cab to cab and steam hauled. Seen at Leicester in 1963. Stuart Mackay Collection.
10th August 1963
A Park Royal twin DMU at Mesty Croft, near Wednesbury, with a Walsall - Dudley service on 10 August 1963. Michael Mensing.
8th February 1964
A Park Royal DMU working the 1.46pm Walsall - Penns - Birmingham New Street service is seen east of Aldridge on 8 February 1964. Michael Mensing.
March 1964
A Park Royal DMU seen south of Alvechurch in late March 1964. Michael Mensing.
7th March 1964
The 1.10pm Birmingham New Street - Penns - Walsall service is seen leaving Aldridge on March 7, 1964 operated by a Park Royal DMU. Michael Mensing.
7th March 1964
A Park Royal DMU at Pelsall on March 7th, 1964. Michael Mensing.