Former Tyseley set T304 (51365 & 51407) was back on the Western Region in 1993 working the Cornish branches in place of the disgraced Class 142 Pacers (branded Skippers in Cornwall). On 31 May 1993 it arrives at Sandplace in the rain with the 16:25 Looe to Liskeard Regional Railways service. This unit had started life as a 3 car set with centre trailer 59517, working local services out of Paddington, and eventually acquiring the set number L427, which changed to B427 when it moved to the Bristol area in 1984. Along with a number of the Bristol allocated sets it moved to Tyseley in 1987. This unit was withdrawn with minor accident damage in late 1993, but is happily now preserved not from this spot, at the Plym Valley Railway. |