#class 100

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Photos taken at night in the 1960s always look surreal. Suddenly they de-age the scene and could merely be a shaky phone pic taken now.

But the subjects date it to the 1960s exclusively, the DMU on the left belongs to a class that never saw service beyond 1969.

Cambridge, 1967

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On The Rails - First Gen DMUs The British Rail Class 100

The British Rail Class 100 diesel multiple units were built by Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company Limited from 1956 to 1958, designed and built in collaboration with the Transport Sales Dept. of T.I. (Group Services) Ltd.

The class were designed to be lightweight to allow for good acceleration. None were selected for refurbishment and withdrawals started in 1969. The last passenger car was withdrawn from service in 1988.

Under initial classification 1973, the DTCs became 143s, but were later reclassified as 100s.

56111 was used as a training aid by the Ministry of Defence until 1985. Two sets entered departmental service: 51122 and 56300 became ADB975664 and ADB975637 for use as the "Stourton Saloon" – the Eastern Region General Manager's saloon – for which the class gained a small amount of "fame"; these were scrapped in 1990. The other pair were ADB975349 and ADB975539 (ex 51116 and 56101) and were used as the Eastern Region inspection saloon, until being scrapped in 1993. 56106 survived the longest time on the national network, being scrapped in 2000.