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British Rail Class 156

Please watch: "The abandoned Eurostar"    • The Abandoned Eurostar   -~- British Rail Class 156 is a diesel multiple-unit train. A total of 114 sets were built between 1987 and 1989 for British Rail by Metro-Cammell's Washwood Heath works. They were built to replace elderly first-generation DMUs and locomotive-hauled passenger trains. The design of the Class 156 was more conservative than Metro-Cammell's earlier Class 151 design. The bodyshell was made of steel instead of aluminium, and the cab design was deliberately similar to the Class 150 to ease acceptance In late 1985, British Rail placed an order with Metro-Cammell for 114 two-carriage Class 156 units. Each unit was formed of two driving carrages, one of which contained a toilet, The vehicles are powered by 6-cylinder diesel engine giving the Class 156 a top speed of 75 mph (121 km/h). Unlike the Class 150 units, the 156s have a single-leaf sliding door at either end of each coach. This reflected the expected longer journeys with fewer stops that the Class 156 was supposed to operate. As with the Class 150, all the doors are operable by passengers when released by the guard using one of two passenger door control panels; they are energised using a carriage key to turn a rotary switch situated on the cab bulkhead. Units operated by Abellio ScotRail have additionally been fitted with door-control panels near the centre sets of doors for the convenience of the guard. On 10 November 1987, 156401 conducted its first test run from Washwood Heath to Banbury. The Class 156 was then introduced on new services from East Anglia to North West England as well as existing services services from Norwich and Cambridge to Birmingham. They also operated boat trains from Harwich to Blackpool and later Liverpool. The new Class 156 was also delivered to Heaton, Neville Hill, Haymarket and Inverness replacing the Class 155 units being withdrawn due to faulty door mechanisms. On 15 June 1989, 156502 was sent on holiday to the Netherlands as part of the Dutch Railways 150th celebrations. It returned on 10 July. On 21 October 1993, 156405 became the first Sprinter to accrue 1 million miles, whilst working the 10:10 Great Yarmouth to Norwich service. The first 100 were painted in Provincial sector's livery of blue and beige with light blue stripe. Twenty units, based at Tyseley depot, were painted into Regional Railways Express livery after the rebranding of Provincial Rail. The last fourteen units were operated by Strathclyde PTE, and carried an orange and black livery. Following the delivery of the Class 158s in the early 1990s, the 156s began to be cascaded to less important services. As part of the privatisation of British Rail, the Class 156 fleet was sold with Angel Trains taking ownership of 76 and Porterbrook taking 38. These were leased to several train operating companies, mainly in Scotland, East Anglia, Northern England and the Midlands. As usual with this channel we talk mainly about Scottish fleets. During the time of privatisation the Scottish fleet passed to the National Express owned ScotRail franchise, which used them until 2004 when the franchise was taken over by First ScotRail. All passed to Abellio ScotRail with the franchise in 2015. They operate both on short-distance commuter routes and on services of up to five and a half hours, such as Glasgow to Fort William and Mallaig. 14 units continued to be operated by Strathclyde Partnership for Transport and originally wore its orange and black livery. This was replaced with a carmine and cream livery in 1997. All have since been repainted into ScotRail's standard Saltire livery. Despite their past liveries, the former SPT units were not confined to any specific route and thus worked in tandem with the rest of the 156 fleet on other routes and could be seen in many locations around Scotland. Generally units work interchangeably on local and long-distance workings, however only the 15 Radio Electronic Token Block fitted units can operate on the West Highland Line from Glasgow Queen Street to Oban and Fort William / Mallaig. In the event of severe disruption, Class 156s are known to make rare appearances to Perth and Dundee, where they operated regularly until 2005. In September 2008 Transport Scotland announced that all ScotRail trains, including those of Strathclyde Partnership for Transport would be repainted in a new livery of blue with white saltire markings on the carriage ends. The first 156 was repainted in this livery by RailCare Springburn in February 2009. In December 2014, 156478 was written off by Angel Trains after being damaged by floodwaters on the Glasgow South Western Line. The unit was repaired and it returned to service with Abellio ScotRail in October 2016.