1981 - Last AM6, at 'Victoria
LNER-designed BR AM6 - Class 306 - unit 306017 at Southend Victoria station in October 1981, during the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 'Class 306 Farewell Tour'. BR AM7 - Class 307 - unit 307124 is on the right.
Both EMUs had originally been built as 1500v DC units, and a few of the AM6s had been built in the early-1940s by the LNER and painted in grey/blue livery, but were not completed, and stored for the rest of the war, and the class finally entered service in 1949, in drab BR green livery.
Unit 306017 was preserved, and used on several special trips in the 1980s, and later spent some years at the East Anglian Railway Museum, and is now (2019) at the National Railway Museum at Shildon, in run-down condition, with faded green paintwork.
Restored from a grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown
1981 - Last AM6, at 'Victoria
LNER-designed BR AM6 - Class 306 - unit 306017 at Southend Victoria station in October 1981, during the Railway Correspondence and Travel Society 'Class 306 Farewell Tour'. BR AM7 - Class 307 - unit 307124 is on the right.
Both EMUs had originally been built as 1500v DC units, and a few of the AM6s had been built in the early-1940s by the LNER and painted in grey/blue livery, but were not completed, and stored for the rest of the war, and the class finally entered service in 1949, in drab BR green livery.
Unit 306017 was preserved, and used on several special trips in the 1980s, and later spent some years at the East Anglian Railway Museum, and is now (2019) at the National Railway Museum at Shildon, in run-down condition, with faded green paintwork.
Restored from a grainy original..
Original slide - photographer unknown