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51818_1981_Sheffield

            Blue grey livered class 110 Driving Motor Brake Composite (DMBC) E51818 is the lead vehicle in a three car set standing in one of the north bay platforms at Sheffield, 11th July 1981. At least the centre vehicle of the three car set is in all over rail blue livery.

Vehicle History
The Birmingham Carriage and Wagon Company built in 1961 thirty diesel multiple unit sets to operate services on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire main line. These were three car sets  and were allocated to Neville Hill and Newton Heath. These sets spent their entire careers based around this area and earned them the name of the 'Calder Valley' sets. This arduous route meant they required more power than other diesel multiple unit sets, so they were fitted with 180hp Rolls Royce engines which gave them the best hp/ton of any of the first generation diesel multiple unit’s. A serious early problem for the class was their habit of catching fire, due to the poor routing of the exhausts and also heater problems. The first vehicles to be withdrawn were E51821/37 on the 9th November 1963, due to a fire at Sowerby Bridge. A fire at Hammerton Street depot destroyed E59706 and M52074/59705 were withdrawn in the late 1960s. In the first ten years in traffic the class had suffered ninety two fires in the ninety vehicles. This led to a series of modifications which eventually reduced this problem. By the early 1970’s there were twenty eight complete three car sets and one spare power car left in traffic and they were included in the diesel multiple unit refurbishment program which commenced in the mid 1970’s, however the work did not commence on this class until 1979. The cost of refurbishment of a spare power car could not be justified, so the one in poorest condition, E51848, was withdrawn. In the early 1980’s the West Yorkshire PTE adopted a policy of reducing diesel multiple unit sets to two-cars wherever possible to meet public transport spending limitations imposed by Parliament. Services required only nine three-car class 110 sets for peak workings, and so eighteen trailers (fifteen recently refurbished) were withdrawn in 1983, leaving ten three car sets and eighteen two car sets. These units fell victim to the influx of the second generation diesel multiple unit’s and were withdrawn in the late 1980’s with E51818 being condemned in July 1988 and broken up in May 1989.

Canon AT1, Kodachrome 64

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / Sheffield (show map)

Taken on: July 11, 1981

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