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Class 121 Pressed Steel single car DMU 55032, set T132, at Stourbridge Junction after arrival from Stourbridge Town on 15-3-89. This end (No.1, the non-van end) still carries the Welsh dragon despite being at Tyseley for almost three years. Note the broken wiper, and in the left cab window what seems like the traditional Tyseley black set number board has been turned over and 'Billy the Bubble Car' chalked on. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.
55032 displays its Tyseley number T132 as it climbs the Lickey Incline near Vigo about 13.30 on the 13th June 1989. It was working the 13.02 Worcester Foregate Street to Barnt Green service. Dave Gommersall.
Tyseley based class 121 "Bubble Car" 55032 seen arriving into the bay platform at Stourbridge Junction from Stourbridge town in the summer of 1989. Bob Belcher.
A view from the cab of class 121 55032 as it sits in the bay platform at Stourbridge Junction in the summer of 1989 awaiting its next short trip down the hill to Stourbridge Town. Bob Belcher.
Class 121 T132 / 55032 enters Worcester Shrub Hill from Worcester Foregate Street about 17.10 on Saturday the 9th September 1989 working from Foregate Street to Longbridge via Shrub Hill. Dave Gommersall.
The original Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton (OWW known as the 'Old Worse and Worse'!!) Depot at Worcester had just 3 more weeks before it was flattened after this image was taken at lunchtime on Sunday the 12th November 1989. Stabled there were 55032, 150 145 and T312. Dave Gommersall.
55032 sits in platform 1 at Stourbridge Junction in Feb 1990 waiting it's next trip to Stourbridge Town. Stephen Burdett.
55032 / T012 passes Worcester Tunnel Junction signal box at 14.30 on the 14th June 1990 working the 14.25 Worcester Foregate Street to Barnt Green. Dave Gommersall.
Tyseley allocated class 121 single unit DMU 012 (55032) seen arriving at Bromsgrove in 1990. Bob Belcher.
55032 coming of the branch at Stourbridge Junction in 1991. John Law.
55032 T012 is stabled in the centre road at WSH at 13.10 on Sunday the 10th February 1991 after heavy overnight snow. The photo is taken from the parcels bay and shows Worcester Shrub Hill signal box and rake of MGR wagons in Worcester Yard. Notice also a rail worker checking a set of points by the signal box. Dave Gommersall.
On 23 March 1991 55032 arrives at Barnt Green to form the 13:41 to Worcester Foregate Street. Jason Hall.
In 1991 only a few trains between Birmingham and Worcester ran via and stopped at Bromsgrove which then had just one platform on the up side meaning that a line-blocking move was required. The trains were mostly operated with a single unit DMU such was the low demand for seats. On 27 April of that year 55032 was on duty and I photographed it approaching Droitwich Spa after travelling along the largely single track from Stoke Works Junction. There are 9 semaphore signals in view along with the remains of the rail-served coal depot which was in the process of closure and removal by this date. Peter Tandy.
Tyseley allocated Pressed Steel Class 121 single car unit 55032, seen as we passed through Worcester Shrub Hill on board the the Class 20 Locomotive Society's "The Last Great Moose Hunt", 27th April 1991. Andrew J Crowther.
Birmingham New Street on 11/5/91, 55032 has been added to the Class 108 on the 06:30 to Hereford to provide extra capacity. Gazza Prescott.
Class 121 unit T012 (55032) seen arriving at Leamington Spa one evening in summer 1991. Bob Belcher.
Class 121 55032 descends the Lickey Incline at Vigo Bridge on Tuesday 20 August 1991 with what is likely a morning Birmingham to Worcester Shrub Hill service. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 121 55032 has left the turnback siding at Barnt Green spot on time on 26 September 1991 and is running into the platform to pick 2 or 3 passengers going to Bromsgrove, Droitwich Spa or Worcester Shrub Hill. Peter Tandy.
Just as I arrived at Barnt Green on 26 September 1991 55032 was stopping at the up platform with a stopping train from Bromsgrove. My 35mm Olympus loaded with colour transparency film didn't fit into my bag with a lens attached so I took only this black & white picture of the class 121 single unit just as it pulled away. I did once ride on one of these units from Bromsgrove to Longbridge and the first part of the journey up the 1/37 gradient of the Lickey Incline from a standing start was a credit to the pair of 150bhp engines. Peter Tandy.
Single units DMUs were not all that common on the Leamington Spa to Stratford-upon-Avon line by November 1991 so when I saw class 121 55032 (T012) arrive on 22 November I had a few shots. As the train left the station, platform 1 was being cleaned with a steam washer and two of the station staff, Aubrey Wheeler (left) and Roy Smith respectively were watching what was going on and taking a parcel to the Red Star office. Peter Tandy.