Class 156411 'Super Sprinter' DMU, Loughborough Train Station
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Photo: Charles Moorhen
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This
night photo of East Midlands Trains Class 156 411 2-car DMU, allocated to NM - Northampton Eastcroft, taken on a warm summer evening in August 2016 at Loughborough station, is one of
my all-time favourites for a couple of reasons.
Class 156411 unit coach number are as follows: 52411 57411.
Firstly,
it is the colours that were captured during the long exposure time (around half a minute).
How the rich blues, reds, oranges and yellows of the East Midlands Trains livery create a vibrancy that I did not fully appreciate when I composed the picture.
Secondly, I believe that the bright, flared train headlight sets the
whole image off a treat. Though, once again, I wasn't at all aware
of this until I saw the final image.
In
addition to all of this, I love the way the Brush Traction building,
built in the 1800's, is peeping cheekily above the cab roof of the
dmu.
Constructed between 1987 and 1989 by Metro-Cammell, at Washwood Heath in the West Midlands, who manufactured such rolling stock as the Class 310 electric multiple unit, the Class 156 diesel multiple unit, known as a 'Sprinter', began entering service in 1988.
114 two-car sets (228 carriages) were produced bearing fleet numbers 156401 - 156514.
The
current (2018) operators using Class 156 diesel multiple commuter train units are;
Scotrail, East Midlands Trains, Greater Anglia and Northern.
In 2018 twelve sets carry the following names:
156 416 Saint Edmund
156 418 ESTA 1965-2015
156 420 LA' AL RATTY Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway
156 440 George Bradshaw
156 441 William Huskisson MP
156 448 Bram Stoker Creator of Dracula
156 459 Benny Rothman - The Manchester Rambler
156 460 Driver John Axon G.C.
156 464 Lancashire Dales Rail
156 466 Gracie Fields
156 469 The Royal Northumberland Fusiliers (The Fighting Fifth)
156 490 Captain James Cook Master Mariner
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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