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Class 128 55994, set number T004, is seen in Express Parcels livery in the snow at Tyseley on 17.01.1987. On the left is Class 108 54495. Andy Cole.
55991 & 55992 stayed loyal to their spiritual home of Reading DMU Depot. They were always to be seen trundling Up and Down the Great Western main line from Paddington to Reading.They are seen there after some seasonal snow at Reading Station on 19th January 1987 AndrewHA.
It was possible to see various parcel units around Reading in 1987 including class 128 single units. This beauty which I photographed on 30 January 1987 is 55992 in gloriously tatty rail blue arriving from the London direction on an unknown working. Peter Tandy.
Class 128 parcels car 55991 is seen at Reading on 28th February 1987. Ian Buck.
Class 128 DMPMV no. 55993 in Red Star Parcels livery is seen at Crewe on 22/Apr/1987. In the adjacent platform is class 150 unit no. 150 140 on which I had just travelled from Derby. Robert Chilton.
The Mendip Meaderer railtour on 4/5/87 is seen near Merehead, led by 55993. Tom Clift.
This picture is dated 9 May 1987 and sbows 55994 topping the GWR-liveried Class 117 (51368 + 59520 + 51410) at Kidderminster while working a service to Birmingham New Street. It looks as if the warm and sunny weekend had brought out a large number of insects judging by the fatalities apparent on the yellow end... Peter Tandy.
Class 128 parcel car 55993 in platform 5 at Derby on 12 May 1987. Rob Paterson.
A Class 128 parcel unit at Ealing Broadway on 30th June 1987. It is thought to be 55992 (the WR only had two it this time, 91 and 92, only 92 had two wipers at this end on this date!). 55025 is on the left. Jonathan Hazan.
Together forever .... Rumoured to be withdrawn from traffic fairly soon, one of OC's allocation of two Class 128 DPUs (diesel parcels units) W55992 rumbles along the up relief line at Poplar Jn, Acton, heading for Paddington ...... Inseparable since being introduced in 1960 both W55991+W55992 have been allocated to the London Division of the Western Region for over 27 years. Firstly at Southall, then Reading and now, for the last month, Old Oak Common. Both were transferred away to Cambridge 18 months later, with 55991 being withdrawn from there on 5/11/90, whilst 55992 was transferred, on paper at least, to Chester on 30/11/90 and immediately withdrawn ..... Both were later scrapped at M.C. Metals Ltd, Springburn, Glasgow ...... 1st July 1987. Nigel Mack.
The headcode boxes are gone on 55991, seen at Reading on 9/7/87. Malcolm Clements.
Gloucester RC&W DMPV 55994 sits in Derby station in 1987. John Law.
Parcels car 55992 approaches West Drayton station on October 1st, 1987. Note the vehicle number on the cab front. Malcolm Clements.
55992 sits in London Paddington station coupled to a suburban set on October 1st, 1987. Malcolm Clements.
Sitting at the stops in platform 10 of London Paddington station on October 1, 1987 is 55992 coupled to a suburban set. Malcolm Clements.
55993, Tyseley open day, 4/10/87. Malcolm Clements.
55993 with 55033, Tyseley open day, 4/10/87. Malcolm Clements.
Class 128 DMPV 55995 at Stafford on 04/10/87. Roddy MacPhee.
W55992 in Vic Berry's Yard at Leicester on the 14th October 1987. Note the vehicle number on the cab front. Malcolm Clements.
Class 128 parcels car 55994 at Derby on 14/10/87. Malcolm Clements.