Ben04uk Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 I'm researching a potential new layout of East Kilbride - can anyone let me know the classes of DMU's that would have served the area in the 1970s and 1980s? Would the daily pick up goods service only ever handled by a Class 20 in this period or were other classes used? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Ian Smeeton Posted May 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2019 I only went to East Kilbride once (once too often?) I think that there were still a couple of coal yards still working, with 16t Minerals. I never saw anything else, though. Or a loco. DMUs would have been Derby/Pressed Steel 3 car units or the ubiquitous Met Camm 101s I would think that anything Polmadie based in Typoe 1/2 power classes could have been used, so Claytons (very early), 24's, 25's, 26's & 27's, are all possible as well as the 20's Wasn't there a Radio Times printing plant along the branch somewhere? That may have generated vans out and paper in. I think that the CRA magazine had an article about the branch in recent times. I will have a scan through, failing that, a reuqest for info on the Crassoc Forum may yield some answers. Regards Ian Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium keefer Posted May 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2019 (edited) Some info on RAILSCOT: https://www.railscot.co.uk/East_Kilbride_Line/index.php The East Kilbride pics page also has a slightly more detailed chronology (start at page 3 for your era): https://www.railscot.co.uk/locations/E/East_Kilbride/2.html DMUs for you time period seem to be mainly cl.101,107 and 116 followed eventually by cl.156. Mention is made of the Radio Times works being at Hairmyres. Edited May 14, 2019 by keefer Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Legend Posted May 14, 2019 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 14, 2019 Dmus , primarily class 116, 107 with the occasional 101 . Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pH Posted May 14, 2019 Share Posted May 14, 2019 A bit before your time, and not on the East Kilbride line itself, but some more information on the Radio Times traffic: https://www.railscot.co.uk/img/44/312/ (I knew I'd seen reference to Radio Times at this station.) 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hexagon789 Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 01 mostly with the odd 107, 116 and even 126 making appearances. 156s were introduced from October 1989, 101s still appeared right up until the late 1990s, though seemingly mostly on Barrhead rather than EK workings. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckymucklebackit Posted May 15, 2019 Share Posted May 15, 2019 The layout of the Radio Times Facility can be seen here https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/side-by-side/#zoom=16&lat=55.7635&lon=-4.2165&layers=170&right=BingHyb I can remember seeing BGs and other parcels stock in the sidings but photographs of the workings are rare. Note that EK was only a true terminus from January 1966, prior to that the line extended to Mavor and Coulson's Engineering Works and it was common for loco hauled stock to be stored on the extension over the weekend. Jim 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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