LMS Route: Rugby to Wolverhampton LMS Route: Rugby to
Leamington LMS Route: Rugby to Tamworth LMS Route: Rugby to
Leicester LMS Route: Rugby to Market Harborough
Rugby Station: lnwrrm3307
Craven single-car Diesel Multiple Unit M55998 approaches
Rugby via the Birmingham up line on 1st September 1962 whilst an ex-LMS 2-6-4T
locomotive stands on the former Midland Railway's Leicester line. Just three of
these Cravens parcel units were built, M55997-99, in 1958. Classified by BR
under its TOPs initiative as Class 129, these units were built for parcels
traffic like the Class 128. One unit (M55997) survived into departmental
service being named 'Hydra'. The driving ends of the Class 129 unit bore a
visible similarity to that of the British Rail Class 105, also built by
Cravens.
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