Class 170109 DMU Wellingborough
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| Photo: Charles Moorhen |
Passenger train Class 170109 Turbostar diesel multiple unit (DMU), in Midland Mainline livery, enters Wellingborough station after leaving Kettering 2001.
Note the use of warning lights each side of the track-crossing walking boards. These lights are triggered, and go out as seen above, when a train passes over a certain part of the railway track whilst approaching the station.
The need for such lights were superflous when the platform ends with safety features such as barriers and 'black crocodile teeth' pads were installed.
News Update:
Seeing East Midlands Trains colourful livery of red, white, orange
and red flashing along the railway tracks, will soon become a thing
of the past.
Abellio will take over the East Midlands Trains franchise on Saturday
18th August 2019. The Class 43 HST Intercity 125 and Class 222
diesel multiple unit will gradually be phased out by brand new
Hitachi trains that will be a variant of the bullet-nosed Class 800
bio-mode DMU.
The new trains will have a lavender livery and be branded with 'EMR'
on both sides.
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