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            Subject matter rather than quality and composition wins the day here with withdrawn Class 125 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) E51156 awaiting its fate at Stratford, 30th May 1978. 

For my 1978 First Class Eastern Region Railrover “summer holiday” I had stocked up with 35mm transparency film for the week ahead. Or so I thought because when it came to processing the week’s photography I realised that one roll of film was in fact a colour print film!!! This is from that colour print roll of film

Unit History
In 1958 twenty high density three car diesel hydraulic sets were built at Derby for suburban services on the Great Eastern.  They were allocated to Stratford for London Liverpool St. – Hertford East, Cheshunt, Epping and Southminster services. Due to there hydraulic transmission they carried the “orange star” coupling code which can be seen above the buffers. The class was fitted with the large Rolls Royce 8-cylinder engine which gave them the same performance as the Great Eastern electric multiple units and they also proved useful on the climb from Liverpool St. to Bethnal Green. When the Great Eastern suburban lines were fully electrified the twenty sets were transferred to Finsbury Park, for working peak-hour services out of Kings Cross alongside locomotive-hauled sets (the off-peak service was worked by class 105 Cravens two car sets). When the Great Northern suburban services were electrified the class was withdrawn between October 1976 and February 1977, with the majority of the class being broken up at Doncaster works and CF Booth, Rotherham. 

E51156 entered traffic in January 1959 and was withdrawn in December 1976. It would linger for almost eight years until finally broken up in August 1984, the last of the Class 125  Driving Motors to survive. It was outlived by two years by two of the trailers in departmental service until they were broken up in 1986, none of the class survive.

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Newham (show map)

Taken on: May 30, 1978

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