Shildon move gives City commuters’ favourite a new lease of life
A PRESERVED LNER-designed EMU that gave more than three decades’service with BR on busy trains between the commuter belt of Essex and London’s Liverpool Street station, faces a new lease of life after its transfer from the East Anglian Railway Museum to the Locomotion museum in Shildon, where it will be restored.
The unit is the sole survivor of 92 three-car sets that were built by Metro Cammell and Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Co in 1949 for the then newly-electrified London to Shenfield route, Britain’s first post Second World War electrification scheme. Initially numbered in the LNER coach series, they were built for 1500v direct
