Class 501 (BR Eastleigh LMR London Area Suburban Services 3-car)

As well as the extensive network on Southern Railway the London Midland & Scottish Railway also had a number of third rail electrified lines including from Watford to London Euston. The Class 501 was built for this route and London Broad Street-Richmond.

Information
Number built:	171 (57 3-car sets)
Built:	1957-58
Builder:	BR Eastleigh
Engine:	4 GEC traction motors (660v DC third rail)
Power:	740 hp (550 kW)
Formation:	Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS)+Trailer Second (TS)+ Driving Trailer Brake Second (DTBS)

The Class 501 was built at BR Eastleigh to a fairly standard (of the time) EMU design based on the shorter Mark 1 coach underframe. They were built with a LMR specified front end including a headcode panel and a destination blind [1]. The units were built without gangway connections and with some seating in compartments though this was later removed because of vanadalism and concerns for passenger safety [2].

Although not the best riding units ever built they soldered on until the mid-1980s. Some passed through into departmental use serving as battery locomotives and sandite trains. Two cars also served with the MOD. A DMBS and a DTBS have been preserved and are now at the Electric Railway Museum.

Preserved cars at the Electric Railway Museum

This car carried the departmental TOPS number 977 349 when serving as a battery locomotive

Both cars are undergoing restoration

[1] Brian Haresnape & Alec Swain, Third Rail DC Electric Multiple Units (Ian Allan, 1989) p. 41
[2] Colin J Marsden, DMU and EMU Recognition Guide (Ian Allan, 2013) p. 376

Class 11 (LMSR/English Electric 0-6-0 Diesel-Electric)

The LMS were the pioneers of diesel shunter developments pre-war and the Class 11 can be seen as the final result of all that hard work [1]. Built by the LMS/British Railways at Derby between 1945 and 1952, 106 of these shunters were built, plus some for the War Department and it was also exported to the Netherlands and Australia. The Class 11, also known at various times as the LMSR Class 0F, BR Class DEJ3, D3/8 and 3/8A, looks very similar to the Class 08 and this later (and of course standard) shunter was based heavily on it [2], using much of the same equipment [3] - the main differences being the size of the wheels and body dimensions.

Information
Number built:	106 (plus 14 for the War Dept.)
Built:	1944-52
Builder:	LMS / BR Derby
Engine:	English Electric 6KT diesel
Power:	350 hp (261 kW)
Wheel arrangement:	0-6-0

Withdrawals began in the late 1960s due to a surplus of shunters and the non-standard nature of the Class 11 compared to the 08, and all were gone by 1971. Eight have been preserved.

Preserved 12099 at Bridgnorth on the Seven Valley Railway

12099 at Kidderminster

12049 at Ropley on the Mid-Hants Railway

Another view of 12049

[1] Brian Haresnape, Diesel Shunters (Ian Allan, 1984) p. 29
[2] Colin J. Marsden (ed.), Modern Locomotives Illustrated No 217 February-March 2016 (SR, GW, LNER, LMS & Trial Shunters & Class 03) p. 11
[3] Haresnape p. 28