Class 100 Gloucester RC&W 2-car DMUs
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50357
3rd January 1979
After withdrawal in June 1978, Class 100 car 50357 awaits its fate in Swindon Works yard on 3rd January 1979. Steve Montgomery.
2nd December 1963
On a gloomy 2nd December 1963 a green liveried Gloucester class 100 dmu makes it's call at Brownhills Station, the train is a working from Burton upon Trent to Wolverhampton. This section of line ran from Rycroft Junction (Walsall) to Wichnor Junction and closed as a through passenger route 18/01/1965. Today no trace of the station remains.
Image taken by Peter Shoesmith.
The picture appears in"British Railways Past and Present #62 The Black Country and South and East Staffordshire" Whitehouse & Dowling 2010 p57. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.
56104
circa early 1980s
A Class 100 DMU heads away from Romiley - the station can be seen just past the junction. Date unknown, likely early 1980s. The DTSL looks like it could be M56104, and so the DMBS is presumably M50349. Stuart Mackay Collection.
50342
circa 1972
SC50342 was the last green DMU vehicle in passenger use, and is seen here on Haymarket depot circa 1972 as part of a three-car set with a Met-Camm TCL in view. Behind on the right is another Gloucester vehicle. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date unknown
In this undated picture Alvechurch station presents a lovely summer rural aspect. The Station Master is in full uniform and has a smile for the alighting passengers, the old station nameboard is in good condition as are the buildings. Patiently waiting for departure time for Birmingham is a Gloucester RC&W class 100, the driver's approach to the uniform is less formal the the station master.
Alvechurch is still open and thriving being part of the Cross City line to Redditch, it is now electrified, but the crossing to the fields and footpath (in front of the train) is still very much used by walkers.
The streak in the sky is a bird, it was there, it stays. Geoff Dowling and John Whitehouse Collection.