Western Region Pullman in ‘N’
ELECTRIFICATION of the West Coast mainline saw the end of Midland Pullman services in 1967, the pair of six-car sets being transferred to the Western Region to join the three eight-car sets which commenced operations on the WR in September 1960.
Constructed in 1959-60 by Metro-Cammell, the Midland sets began operation in July 1960, running from Manchester London Road to St Pancras in the morning and returning in the evening together with a short-lived daytime fill-in turn to Leicester and Nottingham.
The service ran via the Midland mainline until faster electric-hauled Pullman services commenced on the newly electrified West Coast mainline.
Of all-steel construction, the Pullman sets were built as diesel electric multiple unit trains with a driving motor car positioned at each end of the set in the format adopted for HST
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