based at
Bewdley
on the Severn Valley Railway
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© 2011 DMU Group (West Midlands)
A regular and well informed progress report on maintenance matters from the DMU technical team. Our ‘Blue Square Blog’.
Latest Updates on other pages:-
A few more images ion the Group’s Flickr site of the team in action.
This page was last updated
05 February 2012
The DMU Group (West Midlands) can now proudly announce the opening of a sales page on it’s website.
The page currently has the two cab ride DVD’s created by Martin Fowler, click here to access the page.
Date posted
12th June 2011
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Date posted
13th Nov 2011
London Midland arranged a farewell tour for the Class 150 DMU units, 150 001 & 150 106, covering many areas of the mainline around the Midlands, and also a trip to Bridgnorth. As part of this event, the organisers arranged a photo opportunity at Bewdley for the SVR and our DMU Group, before the passengers were allowed on the platform.
Our thanks go to them.
This is the second time in just 13 months that 150 001 (the prototype) has been on SVR metals, it was with us during the Railcar Reunion event on October 2010.
The class are now moving away from the Midlands to the Northern Rail territory, to join the Class 142 Pacer units.
Date posted
20th Nov 2011
Three of the maintenance team were passengers on the trip from Tyseley to the East Midlands, Phil was the guard on this service. A few images are included on the Away Day folder on our Flickr site
Date posted
28th Nov 2011
The group turned a couple of cars on the turntable at Kidderminster on Saturday 26th November, images on group’s Flickr site, DMU group at Work section..
This may be a bit ahead of the game, but here are a few of the projects for the Group in early 2012...
As the five cars are now in a new formation, with the refurbished 51941 at the north end of the set, and 50933 at the south end of the set. The chance will be taken after the Carol trains and staff trains, to removed the seats in 50933 for recovering in the standard Blue/Green fabric, to match the rest of the sets.
Height adjustments will be made to the ride height on 51941, after the recent refurbishing and removal of the old generator.
A new land-
The current temporary wiring in 59250 will also be changed to that suitable for the new requirements in the bar.
A good tidy-
The refurbishment of a trailer car generator for use under 59250, mount of this unit, connections to the Stones control gear and testing.
Continuing general maintenance and exam routine for all five cars.
Date posted
11th Dec 2011
Date posted
8th Jan 2012
The last set of set units for re-
Date posted
5th Feb 2012
Not a lot to report, other than the information supplied on the Blue Square Blog pages, there has been information added to the Seats page, and a couple of images to the group’s Flickr site.