140001 at Bedford - 26 March 1981

As restrictions continue and we crawl on hands and knees towards various milestones, I have turned again to my archive. On previous occasions, I decided not to scan certain pictures because of quality, composition or lack of accompanying information. Over recent years, I have improved my editing techniques (you might not agree) and I can better recover some of my older images even if the composition is not always what I would accept today.

I was at Bedford station to see the arrival of the then new 315807 which was on training runs following the recent electrification between St Pancras and Bedford. Before it arrived at Bedford, prototype lightweight dmu 140001 left the sidings for a northbound run.

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