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            A perfect, preservation-era reproduction of the early days of first generation DMUs?

A brand new BRCW-built DMU passes Dainton in Devon on a hazy summer’s day in 1960.

The first units of this type were delivered in April 1960 and started work that summer. 

The presence of passengers, the absence of multiple drivers in the cab and the headcode (for the 0625 Penzance to Paignton) all point to this being one of the earliest passenger runs for this type.

Latterly known as the class 118, these units were ubiquitous in the West of England for the next 30 years, finally departing the West in 1992.

Information from the incomparable railcar.co.uk website.

Photograph by the incomparable Peter W Gray, now part of my collection.

Taken on: January 1, 1960

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