sprinterguy
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Yeah that's the one, the 'Calder Valley' units. Rolls Royce engines, and not at all bad as far as 'bog carts' go, with a bit more 'poke' than other first-gen diesel units to cope with the Trans-pennine gradients. Reduced to 2-car power twins from their original 3-car formations by that point in the eighties, further increasing their power to weight ratio, the last main line survivors made it into 1990.18/07/86 - looks like I was back there again. I never took much interest in identifying the various classes of DMU. But this one I do recognise, as Hornby released a model of it at the time - it's a 110, isn't it?
Nice moody photo under the roof at pre-electrification Leeds there. I had a pleasant journey on the surviving three-car set on the Wensleydale Railway to Redmire twenty years ago, and my Hornby model, itself now forty years old since first appearing in the catalogue, still quietly plies it's trade on the leisurely 'Railcar' diagram on my layout.