Night Photo Class 168108 Chiltern Railways Clubman DMU Leamington Spa 2016

Class 168108 DMU Train at Leamington Spa Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Chiltern Railways Class 168108 diesel multiple unit UK passenger train, basically a modified Class 170, stands in Royal Leamington Spa station.  

This train night photo was taken during a photo session in August 2016.

The Chiltern Railways Class 168108 DMU was en route to Birmingham Moor Street station.

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Chiltern 168108 at Cheddington.

Chiltern 168108 arrives at Warwick Parkway.

 

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Photo Virgin Trains Super Voyager Class 221142 DMU Train Rugby 2012

221142 'Super Voyager' DEMU, Rugby Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Class 221142 Virgin Voyager diesel electric multiple unit, photographed on a wet, stormy evening, as can be seen by the threatening clouds above the train, stands in Rugby railway station on the 2nd September 2012 whilst en route with a scheduled service to Wolverhampton.

This tilting 5-car diesel electric multiple unit UK passenger train, known as a Super Voyager, was built between 2001 and 2002 by Bombardier Transportation.

Since Virgin Trains lost it franchise in December 2019, this and other West Coast Main Line Class 221 Voyager units are operated by Avanti West Coast.

As I typed the words, Rugby station, I was reminded of its connection with the world-famous author, Charles Dickens and of his fictional, Mugby Junction, (the name inspired by Rugby station).

Finding himself at the Warwickshire station during a reading tour in 1866, Charles Dickens and a companion entered its refreshment room.  While Dickens' companion searched in his pockets for the correct change with which to pay for the coffee the pair had ordered, the novelist reached out to take hold of the milk and sugar.  

However, before he could lay his hands on the items, they were whisked out of reach by the counter assistant who said, "You sha'nt have any milk and sugar, 'till you two fellows have paid for your coffee".

No celebrity worship there then!

Apparently the counter assistant had not recognised the esteemed writer.

The incident made it into one of the 'Mugby Junction' stories.

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Virgin Voyager Class 221 at Milton Keynes.

Class 221101 Voyager DMU 'Ghost of Virgin Past'.

Double Virgin Trains Class 221 Super Voyager at Crewe.

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Photo Alstom Coradia 1000 Class 180113 First Group DMU Train Didcot 2004

Class 180113 Coradia 1000 Diesel Multiple Unit, Didcot Parkway Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Diesel multiple unit Alstom Coradia 1000 Class 180113 dmu UK passenger train in colourful First Group Trains livery is photographed as it pulls into Didcot station on a sunny summer day in 2004.

In all fourteen Class 180 Coradia 4-car dmu units were produced by the multinational Frence company, Alstom, at the former Metro-Cammell works at Washwood Heath, Birmingham, between 2000 and 2001.

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Night Photo Class 165015 Chiltern Railways Network Turbo DMU Train Banbury 2016

Chiltern Railways Class 165015 Diesel Multiple Unit, Banbury Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Night photo of diesel multiple unit (DMU), Chiltern Railways Network Turbo Class 165015 passenger train  about to leave Banbury Station operating an evening service to London Marylebone in May 2016.

The red and white carriages on the right are a train of new S-Type, London Underground stock brought into the station by a pair of Class 20 diesel locomotives.

 

 

 

Video Clip - Class 168001 DMU Arrives at Banbury Station

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Night Photo Class 168216 Chiltern Railways Clubman DMU Train Banbury 2016

Class 168216 Clubman DMU, Banbury Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Night photo of Chiltern Railways Clubman diesel multiple unit (DMU) Class 168216 as it sets down passengers at Banbury station after operating an evening service from London Marylebone in May 2016.

 

Clubman diesel multiple units passenger trains, such as Class 168216, were constructed between 1998 and 2004, with the earliest examples entering service on the 20th May 1998.

In all, 19 trainsets were built with 2/3/4 cars per set.  With a top speed of 100 mph (160 km/h), 4-car unit Class 168216 offers 272 seats with air-conditioning throughout.

The 168 Clubman Class of dmu can be found operating on the Chiltern Main Line, London to Aylesbury Line, London Marylebone - Oxford, Princes Risborough - Aylesbury Line.

Network South East, then operated by British Rail, originally planned the Class 168 for their expansion of services on the Chiltern Main Line to Birmingham Snow Hill or New Street stations. In the event, privatisation put and end to the NSE plans.  

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Photo Class 170398 Cross Country Turbostar DMU Train Leaves Oakham

Class 170398 Cross Country DMU Oakham Station

Photo:  Charles Moorhen

Cross Country Trains, Class 170398 Turbostar diesel multiple unit (DMU), photographed curving to the left as it leaves Oakham railway station heading towards the iconic latticework passenger footbridge, and the famous Grade II listed Oakham signal box.

It was this particular signal box, built in 1899, that Airfix, manufacturers of plastic modelling kits, took as the prototype for part of their railway buildings model kits.

 

 

 

Oakham Lattice-Work Bridge and 'Airfix' Signal Box

 

 Photo: Charles Moorhen

 

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