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5th October 2019 GWR Class 150/2 No.150232 operated the final day of shuttles between Taunton and Bishops Lydeard as part of the 2019 Exmoor Gateway Project. The unit provided by GWR allowed passengers to travel from Taunton to enjoy the West Somerset Railway Autumn Steam Gala.
May 19, 2023 · First Great Western 'local lines' Class 150 No. 150248 provided a shuttle service between Bishops Lydeard and Taunton to connect with the mainline network. The unit is pictured at Bishops Lydeard on the 17th June 2012 ready to depart with the 15:55 Bishops Lydeard to Taunton. (Photo: Alexander Martin Brown) 2nd January 2011.
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I think that the Class 150 styling is pleasing on the eye. Perhaps because of this first encounter I have always been interested in the fortunes of 150001. 150001 and 150002 were the only two in the fleet which were built as 3 car units. The remainder were built as 2 car sets with the second batch equipped with cab end gangways that would allow pas...
Although externally the same, the two prototypes differed in their power train. 150001 one was fitted with Cummings engines and Voith hydraulic transmission. 150002 had a Perkins engines and Self Changing Gears (SCG) gearboxes. SCG gearboxes had been fitted to a number of BR DMU types as well as Class 03 and 04 diesel shunters. However in the case ...
150001 had been trialed on the Midland Main Line and reached St Pancras on at least one occasion. However in May 1985 BR are allowed the operation of these two prototype units on the Wirksworth branch. This line to Wirksworth which deviates from the Midland Main Line at Duffield had been closed to passengers in 1947 by the London Midland & Scottish...
At the time I lived in Belper just North of Derby and I used to commute into Derby on the Matlock services. On many occasions the two Class 150 prototypes, and indeed the two Metropolitan Camell Class 151 prototypes, were used on these services. The 150 prototypes project engineers were based at Derby so it was an ideal test situation. They could m...
Over the years many have questioned the need for prototypes. Cynically one could say that those opposed are driven by financial concerns. There have been successful prototypes such as English Electric’s ‘Deltic’ and DP2 and of course the High Speed Train. There are also examples of failures. It could be argued that the failures are a blessing becau...
In my view the 150 fleet has been a success. My only criticisms are the 3×2 seating arrangement and that some of the seats don’t line up fully with the windows. I seem to remember a statistic that was bandied about by British Rail in the early 1980s that it required two new DMU vehicles to replace three old ones. This was probably because the seati...
Great Western Railway now operates these two 150 prototypes. The train company were looking to increase their fleet of trains to meet passenger demand for seats. With the massive increase in passenger journeys on the National network since privatisation although new trains have been built and indeed continued to be so, Great Western Railway scoured...
(Photo: Taunton Trains Collection) As part of the Great Western 150, a rake of coaches was specially converted and painted as a traveling museum charting the progress which had been made on the GWR between 1935 and 1985. The were stabled in the old Minehead Bay Platform adjacent to Railway Street.
17th April 2015 First Great Western Class 150/2 No.150219 has recently returned to service for First Great Western having undergone refurbishment and fitting of a disabled toilet. New legislation introduced means all frontline passenger trains need to have disabled facilities fitted by 2019.
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The British Rail Class 150 Sprinter is a class of diesel multiple-unit passenger trains, developed and built by British Rail Engineering Limited at York Carriage Works between 1984 and 1987 for use on regional services across Great Britain.
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