British Rail Class 111
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Based on Class 101/2s, but with different engines. The only external body difference was on the final batch of cars where a four character headcode box was fitted above the front cab windows, with the destination indicator on top of a reduced height centre window.
The first cars built, part of an order for 339 Met-Camm cars, were 4 power/trailer sets for the LMR Manchester area built in early '57. One of these was equipped with supercharged 230hp 6-cylinder engines. This was followed by ten 3-car sets comprising DMBS/TS/DMC for the NER at Bradford, then a further twenty 3-car sets.
[edit] Technical details
- Builder: Metropolitan Cammell
- Introduced: 1957
- Coupling Code: Blue Square
- Body: 57ft x 9ft 3in
- Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
- Transmission: Standard mechanical
[edit] Preservation
One car survives, buffet 59575 currently awaiting restoration after asbestos stripping at the Midland Railway Butterley.
[edit] References
- The Railcar Association
- Motive Power Recognition: 3 DMUs. Colin J. Marsden
- British Railway Pictorial: First Generation DMUs. Kevin Robertson
- British Rail Fleet Survey 8: Diesel Multiple Units- The First Generation. Brian Haresnape
- A Pictorial Record of British Railways Diesel Multiple Units. Brian Golding
