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DMUs in Colour An Illustrated History of First Generation Diesel Multiple Units

By Robert Dalton, published by RCTS Publications, hardback, 168 pages, £27.50. ISBN 978-1-7391324-0-8

Wasn’t it the trans-Atlantic chanteuse, Joni Mitchell, who warned us that “you don’t know what you’ve got till it’s gone”? And never can a lyric been more appropriate than to the life and times of the original classes of ‘green’ DMUs. We weren’t sure what to make of then at first, after all they did replace some splendidly antique steam locomotives

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