Standing outside East Midlands Trains Nottingham Light Maintenance depot on the 8th November is one of its allocation of diesel multiple units, 156406.

When I was a lad the depot site was the carriage sidings with a Class 08 pilot engine and usually a couple of Peaks on Midland Main Line passenger duty and following the closure of Colwick MPD in 1969 a number of the local trip locomotives (Class 20/25/47) stabled.

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East Midlands Trains 156497 stands in the platform at Attenborough working 2A58, 17:39 Newark – Matlock, 7th November 2018.

Unit History
156497 is one of a class of one hundred and fourteen class 156 units built between 1987 and 1989 by Metro-Cammell at their Washwood Heath works in Birmingham. It entered service in April 1989 allocated to Neville Hill where it replaced the unsuitable class 150 units on Trans-Pennine Express services from Hull and Scarborough to Manchester and Liverpool. I first saw this unit at Leeds on the 11th September 1990. After twenty two years working in the North West/Yorkshire area it was one of a number of units involved in a shuffle between Train Operating Companies. As part of this shuffle East Midlands Trains gained four class 156 units (156470/73/97/98) from Northern Trains. 156497 arrived at Etches Park on the 16th October 2011 and entered service with East Midlands Trains shortly afterwards.

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Standing in platform 2 at Nottingham waiting for departure time is East Midlands Trains 156497 working 2S15, 11:45 Nottingham – Skegness, 8th November 2018.

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Great Western Railway 165102 stands in the platform at Reading working 1K16, 14:06 Paddington – Bedwyn, 7th November 2018.

Unit History
Thirty seven Class 165/1 Network Turbo diesel multiple units were built at York Works in 1992 in three car (165101 – 165117) and two car (165118 – 165137) versions for Paddington – Thames Valley suburban duties. These units are now starting to head west to the Bristol area as the Thames Valley electrification is completed.

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The rain has stopped and the sun is out generating some tricky lighting for traffic from the south as Great Western Railway 165131 departs Westbury working 2M10, 12:20 Westbury – Swindon, 7th November 2018.

Unit History
Thirty seven Class 165/1 Network Turbo diesel multiple units were built at York Works in 1992 in three car (165101 – 165117) and two car (165118 – 165137) versions for Paddington – Thames Valley suburban duties. These units are now starting to head west to the Bristol area as the Thames Valley electrification is completed.

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