Hall Royd Trains: Class 128 DMU Parcels cars

Hall Royd Junction Box nameboard as preserved at the East Lancashire Raiway, Bury

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Hall Royd Trains: Class 128 DMU Parcels

Manchester Victoria East End with Britannia Pacific 70028 and Class 128 Parcels DMU M55983 in the Parcels Bay sometime in the mid-1960s

Heljan's model of a Class 128 in Midland style (no corridor connection + 4 character headcode) is a stunning model with significant haulage.

Did one ever pass through Hall Royd? Probably not, but they certainly ran to Todmorden as there is a photo of one of them sliding out of the back road at Todmorden past Todmorden West box in a snowy landscape. It's showing headcode 1Z11 suggesting a special working, and given the snow, probably in December. The roof in the photo is still clearly grey but the domed ends - which elsewhere were painted white on DMUs generally - in this instance appear to have been painted black. Possibly Newton Heath had already taken a view on trying to keep this areas clean on their newly acquired unit.

The shot here is undated, but the roof is no-longer pristine have degenerated into a close approximation of 'track colour'.

Note how the yellow warning panel has been applied - not full width as per the Heljan model - but to the raised edge of the headcode box, and with the yellow whiskers removed. Study of the photo suggests a plate has been applied to this area. It is showing code 3P20.