West Midlands Railway 150109 approches Woburn Sands working 2S13, 12:01 Bletchley – Bedford, 26th July 2018.
Unit History
150109 is one of the first production batch (fifty two car units) of “second generation” Diesel Multiple Units built as replacements for the original Diesel Multiple Unit fleet introduced in the late 1950’s. I still consider these to be modern vehicles but they are now approaching thirty years old as they were built at York works in 1985. When built 150109 was used on East Midlands duties based at Etches Park, Derby and I remember them arriving and displacing the Swindon Cross Country (class 120) sets. They were soon displaced themselves with the introduction of the class 156 units on East Midlands duties in 1988 and the class 150/1 units migrated to Tyseley for Birmingham suburban duties. Whilst at Tyseley the unit was made up to a three car set with the incorporation of 57202 from disbanded class 150/2 set 150202 to become 150009. With introduction of the class 172 fleet in 2012 these hybrid three car sets were generally disbanded and 150109 was reformed as originally delivered.
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