Caption:

A dismal summer’s day at Sheffield does nothing to highlight

the almost depressing sight of a Metropolitan Cammell Class 101 stabled on a centre road between services and a Class 110 Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon three-car set that has just arrived as a terminating train from Manchester via the Hope Valley. There is irony in this in that these particular DMUs were built especially for and with great fanfare, the Calder Valley route and to help with the gradients on that line they were fitted with 238hp Rolls Royce engines. By this time in the early 1970s, they had become just common-user units in the Pennine area.