Class 103 Park Royal 2-car DMUs
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circa 1963
Calling at Adderley Park circa 1963 is a 7 car dmu set, leading is a Park Royal coupled to a Gloucester RCW twin and finally a Metro-Cammell triple.
Adderley Park station was opened in 1860, it's layout is a booking office at street level on Bordesley Green Road and buildings at platform level. The platform on the Birmingham bound side is backed by the approach to Adderley Park goods yard, a once busy and thriving yard handling considerable freight from this area of heavy industry. Factories included Morris Commercial and Arthur Holdens Paint, the finely detailed frontage of which still survives. The goods yard was home to many coal merchants whose carts could be seen clattering up the granite sett paved road from the the yard to Bordesley Green Road. The tiled building in front of the camera is a simple waiting room and is still extant although the tall chimney has been removed, the lighting is now electric and much more comprehensive.
Image taken by Peter Shoesmith. Geoff Dowling.
50402
circa late 1960s
A Park Royal DMU (M50402 closest) in Pwllheli station. The set beside is in blue livery, which dates it to circa late 1960s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
975090
21st May 1988
47431 arrives at Doncaster with the Derby Laboratory Coach set on 21st May 1988. The unit being hauled are ex-Class 103 vehicles, 56162 and 50407, renumbered RDB975090 + RDB975089. It was a "Laboratory 5 TRIM Unit" and was used for measuring ride quality. Syd Young.
975090
1980
The Park Royal Research Department dmu has just passed through Nottingham station and heads east past the carriage sidings on a dull day in 1980. Tony Walmsley.
1980
A Class 103 arriving from the Shrewsbury line picks its way through the maze of track and overhead at the south end of Crewe station sometimes in 1980. Tony Walmsley.