Rivercider Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 A relatively unusual dmu for Paignton. Is it a class 120? They were the ones with orange curtains (in very thick material). Originally built including a buffet car which was never used on some of them allegedly. They had dials going up the window pillar so one could sit behind the driver and read the speedometer! Yes that is a class 120 set, I remember riding in DMUs in the late 1960s/early 1970s still with the miniature buffet, but never saw one in use. In my 1974 Combined Volume the centre Trailer Buffet Second cars were classified class 179, but later became class 120, cheers 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 Back in July 1982 here is a view looking the other way off the bridge towards Paignton 50027 Lion is on the short trip from Paignton heading towards Goodrington with empty stock, 31/7/82 cheers 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DavidB Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 A relatively unusual dmu for Paignton. Is it a class 120? They were the ones with orange curtains (in very thick material). Originally built including a buffet car which was never used on some of them allegedly. They had dials going up the window pillar so one could sit behind the driver and read the speedometer!Several of the final batch of 120s with the headcode boxes (WR set numbers in the 55X series) were allocated to Laira through the 70s. I remember them from holidays on the beach at Dawlish, pulling away from the station with an exhaust rasp that sounded much sportier than the usual LA BRCW sets. Ugly brutes, but they rode well (for a DMU). David Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 My main memory of them was going from BTM to Cardiff sitting in the front seat and watching for the exit of the Severn Tunnel once passed the dip! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted April 30, 2015 Share Posted April 30, 2015 Yes 120s were quite regular sights in the late 1960s and early 70s on local Devon services. I remember my first trip on one from Dawlish to Exeter and sitting in the centre coach with curtains at the window and very little engine sound from the powered driving cars. Compared with the noisy, spartan conditions I was used to on the Lincoln based 114s at home, this was like travelling first class. On 30th Aug 1969 I had super power for my trip to Exeter from Paignton, (although at the time I would have been miffed by the lack of hydraulic power), because at Paignton was W50666 W50712 and W55027. They had 900hp for a three coach train of just under 100 tons in weight. There must have been some lively acceleration, but it is not something that I can remember. The ordinary 3-car units tended to work the Cardiff - Taunton trains on a regular basis in those days. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 8th June 1973, Goodrington yard. 6544 and 6505 were unusual visitors to Paignton on an excursion. 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted April 30, 2015 Author Share Posted April 30, 2015 Also on a Southern theme Hastings units at Paignton, 'ee it were wet that day'! 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted May 3, 2015 Author Share Posted May 3, 2015 The heyday of the Mk 1 coach! When I took this photo I hesitated about wasting a precious exposure on such a mundane scene (just a dmu). However now I am amazed to be reminded that a summer Sunday afternoon would result in 40 or so Mk 1 coaches stabled in the far yard at Goodrington and a dmu in the much lesser used siding behind the platform. Dmu's seldom found their way beyond the station at Paignton which made the earlier posting of the class 120 all the more interesting. One set of coaches was an evening scheduled train to BNS but the rest are probably excursions. Their locos have gone off to Newton Abbot to refuel. It all makes for a very tidy scene. There are currently some pictures up from yesterdays mini railtour which is in the same location as the dmu - interesting to compare the same scene today. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasky Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Paignton summer saturdays. Long vanished peak passes the long vanished Woolworths.. 11 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fat Controller Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Yes that is a class 120 set, I remember riding in DMUs in the late 1960s/early 1970s still with the miniature buffet, but never saw one in use. In my 1974 Combined Volume the centre Trailer Buffet Second cars were classified class 179, but later became class 120, cheers The buffets had dropped out-of-use by the mid-1960s; I remember being dispatched to buy myself a can of pop from one on a trip from Llanelly to Tenby in about 1962 or so. 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 4, 2015 Share Posted May 4, 2015 Here is one with somewhat less usage than all the previous Goodrington shots, 47659 complete with Scotty dog just after its transfer to Bath Road from Eastfield. 11th June 1988. 12 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Here is another 1980s view of Paignton from the footbridge 47138 departs a rainy Paignton with the 12.20 departure for Manchester Piccadilly, 31/7/82 cheers 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianusa Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Good old Paignton - nearly August and its raining! Most people don't seem prepared, no macs or brollies, etc. Brian. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasky Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Good old Paignton - nearly August and its raining! Most people don't seem prepared, no macs or brollies, etc. Brian. Odd, i`m sure I can remember lots of sunny summer Saturdays in Paignton. I just can`t find any photographic proof..... 8 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 I looked at the historical weather charts and most of July had been hot and dry, but the weather broke on the 31st with thunderstorms moving up from the south, and the unsettled and miserable weather continued through much of August. Therefore my guess is that the morning had been warm and humid with the heavens opening not too long before the photo was taken. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rivercider Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 I looked at the historical weather charts and most of July had been hot and dry, but the weather broke on the 31st with thunderstorms moving up from the south, and the unsettled and miserable weather continued through much of August. Therefore my guess is that the morning had been warm and humid with the heavens opening not too long before the photo was taken. I think it must have just been a shower, looking at this photo taken later the weather seems to have brightened An unidentified class 47 stands at Paignton with MK1 stock, the former BR class 03 D2192 now named Ardent stands in the sidings of the Torbay and Dartmouth Railways Queens Park station, 31/7/82 cheers 15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Henriksen Posted May 8, 2015 Share Posted May 8, 2015 (edited) DMU hiding at the steam railway, likely taken 1987 [edited to add higher resolution link] https://www.flickr.com/photos/22560024@N04/17306217002/i Edited May 13, 2015 by Gerald Henriksen 9 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
gasky Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 April 83. 50043 arriving in Exeter having apparently hit every fly in southern England. 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium HillsideDepot Posted May 10, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted May 10, 2015 Perhaps its my age, but weren't class 50s and Large Logo livery made for each other? Oh, the memories of the Western in the 80's... 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 April 83. 50043 arriving in Exeter having apparently hit every fly in southern England. O/T, if only there were that many flies to hit 30 years later, but the application of vast quantities of agricultural insecticides has put paid to that, and most of the birds that feed on them. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Apologies for the quality.but I tend to think that for some pictures it's worth hanging on to them for interest and sharing. Taken on my Brownie 127 camera at Goodrington in 1968. This shows the signalman having delivered the single line token to the driver of a Newton Abbot to Kingswear service (2B99) which will then form a morning Kingswear to Paddington on a Summer Saturday - a regular class 43 working. NBL D860 Victorious, long gone and none of the class preserved. I note that the tablet catching apparatus is still present in this picture. All has gone now including the signalbox. The nearest siding has since been taken out and reinstated by the Dart Valley Railway/Torbay Steam Railway/ Torbay and Dartmouth Railway/Dart Rail...I could go on! Anyone know who the signalman is? 16 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DerekEm8 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Some shots of mine from Aller Junction 23rd June 1981 37274,37299 43036,43037 47063 47565 50016 13 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerald Henriksen Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 Apologies for the quality. No need to apologize for the quality, something is always better than nothing. The biggest threat to our documentation of the history of the railways are people who insist on perfect pictures only. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonny777 Posted May 10, 2015 Share Posted May 10, 2015 I agree with that sentiment, but got myself into terrible trouble on another forum for daring to criticise Ivo Peters' policy of throwing away any negative/transparency that was not a perfect exposure, composition, etc., or even had a dirty locomotive. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garry Morris Posted May 10, 2015 Author Share Posted May 10, 2015 Would be interested to know what is under those tarpaulins behind the 37s.Not a normal freight flow from the west, definitely not clay and a substantial load. Great photos. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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