Caption:

Standing in one of the bay platforms at Crewe is

one of the pilot-scheme diesel multiple units; a two-car unit constructed by the Gloucester railway carriage and wagon company. This was quite a rare sight as the class didn’t consist of many examples originally and by the late 1960s/early 1970s BR’s rush to rid itself of non-standard motive-power and rolling-stock was proceeding at an ever-increasing pace, so this unit would have a short life left at this point.