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This BRCW 2 car set has just arrived at Leeds City. If you have good eyesight you may be able to see LEEDS on the destination blind. Edgehillsignallman@Flickr.
A Birmingham RC&W DMU taken on one of our Saturday journeys to Preston about 1966/67. Interesting that the destination is displayed as Manchester Mayfield which closed in 1960. Edgehillsignallman@Flickr.
A BRC&W DMU at Matlock, date unknown. Photograph by Tony Martens. John Law Collection.
A London Midland Region publicity image (Negative D7109) showing a three-car BRC&W set arriving at Uttoxeter with a Crewe service, possibly from Derby, date unknown. Image courtesy of Diesel Unit Preservation Associates Limited. British Railways.
A London Midland Region publicity photograph (negative D7100) showing a three-car BRC&W DMU with a Crewe bound service at Uttoxeter on February 7th 1963. British Railways.
Two three-car BRC&W sets are seen at Milford & Brocton, south of Stafford on the Trent Valley line, in early 1963. Here the four lines become two to go through Shugborough then onto Colwich Junction. Michael Mensing.
Two BRC&W triple DMUs arriving into Eccles station on 1 May 1963, with Blackpool displayed on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A BRC&W triple set forms the 1.34pm Cheadle to Stoke train seen at Cheadle (Staffs) on 18 May 1963. Passenger services were withdrawn from the station the following month, plans are underway to re-open it. The DMCL has Cresswell on the destination blind, this was where the four mile branch joined the Crewe - Derby main line. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A mixed BRC&W / Met-Camm formation forms the 3.15pm Leeds - York service seen at Garforth on 11 June 1963. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Two young trainspotters sit quietly on the bench at Darlaston Station as a BRC&W DMU rumbles in with a Wolverhampton bound train from Burton via Walsall on 02/08/1963. The station is in very good condition given it's timber constuction, the booking hall is at road level on Walsall Road, the main buildings have a canopy but the waiting room on the Wolverhampton bound platform has an unusual barrel roof, the station is gas lit. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
This was the scene looking at Willenhall station on 2nd August 1963. A BRC&W 2 car DMU is heading for Burton with a train from Wolverhampton, it will run via Walsall, Brownhills and Lichfield The stations on the line closed to local passenger traffic on 18/01/1965. Willenhall was the major centre of the lock making industry and the town has an interesting museum dedicated to locks and lock making. Peter Shoesmith Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
A BRC&W triple DMU is seen west of Beeston Castle on the Chester - Crewe line in September 1963. Michael Mensing.
Standing in the smoke filled gloom of Birmingham New Street is a BRC&W DMU, clean and shiny although by this time (09/1963) it has been in service for a few years, the driver glares after his receding passengers who could not be bothered to close a door. On the right, on the Midland side of the station, is Stanier Jubilee 45676 Codrington the train is and it will soon be heading west towards Gloucester or Bristol. Image taken by Peter Shoesmith, Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
A three-car Class 104 set is seen south of Harecastle (Staffs) heading for Crewe on September 28, 1963. Michael Mensing.
A three-car BRC&W DMU is seen at Hanley with the 1.55pm Macclesfield - Stoke-on-Trent service on 28 September 1963. Michael Mensing.
A BRC&W triple set heads for Manchester past Bramhall Loop on the Cheadle Hulme to Macclesfield line in October 1963. Steve Davies Collection.
Two 3-car Class 104 units pass Patricroft Station box on an up working. Ian McDonald Collection.
In the town they were constructed - a BRC&W formation has just passed Smethwick Rolfe Street station with the 1.25pm Birmingham New Street - Manchester Piccadilly via Stoke-on-Trent service on 2 February 1964. Michael Mensing.
The 1:46pm Walsall - Penns - Birmingham New Street service is seen at Aldridge on March 7, 1964, formed of a two-car Class 104. Michael Mensing.
A BRC&W / Met-Camm twin DMU in Newbiggin station (Northumberland) on 19 March 1964, the year it closed, probably on a service to Newcastle. Stuart Mackay Collection.