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Class 108 DMCL (Driving Motor Composite Lavatory) No. E 52064, with E 59250 and M 51941, in BR green livery, at Kidderminster station during Severn Valley Railway’s Spring Gala on 20th April 2024.
Class 100 power/trailer two car Diesel Multiple Unit formed of Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) Sc56097 and Driving Motor Brake Second(DMBS) Sc51118 stand in the yard at Swanwick, 12th July 2008.
Unit History
Forty power/trailer two car sets were built to this design in two batches making them rather rare. Twenty nine sets were for the Scottish Region (allocated to Leith Central) and eleven sets for the London Midland Region (Longsight) although the first nine Scottish Region sets were initially loaned to the London Midland Region. The Scottish sets were displaced at the end of the 1960’s with the majority being transferred to Norwich, however withdrawals commenced in 1972 and continued at regular intervals throughout the 1970’s. The survivors in the latter years could found in the Manchester area as Norwich dispensed with the class by withdrawal or transfer as fast as it could. Sc56097 is from the first batch and was originally paired with Sc53042. It was one of the sets initially loaned to the London Midland Region when it entered traffic in June 1957. It was withdrawn from Leith Central in October 1972. Sc51118 is from the second batch and was originally paired with Sc56310 and entered traffic in December 1957. It was withdrawn in October 1972. Both vehicles entered preservation on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway in 1974. In 1985 they moved to the Swanage Railway and in 1986 to the West Somerset Railway where it remained in use until 1991. Since then the set has been in store arriving at the Midland Railway Centre in 1998. Restoration of Sc56097 commenced in 2011.
It must have been a very nice place to stay. The lavatories of the workers are just at the right hand side;-)
Stahlwerk Maxhuette / Sulzbach-Rosenberg
I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils,
Neat in their boxes, dolor of pad and paper weight,
All the misery of manilla folders and mucilage,
Desolation in immaculate public places,
Lonely reception room, lavatory, switchboard,
The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher,
Ritual of multigraph, paper-clip, comma,
Endless duplicaton of lives and objects.
And I have seen dust from the walls of institutions,
Finer than flour, alive, more dangerous than silica,
Sift, almost invisible, through long afternoons of tedium,
Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows,
Glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey standard faces.
--"Dolor" by Theodore Roethke
Class 127 Trailer Second Lavatory (TSL) M59609 receiving some paintwork attention outside the Midland Railway Centre carriage works at Butterley, 14th June 2017.
Vehicle History
Delivered in October 1959 M59609 was part of thirty four class 127 four car diesel multiple unit sets, each formed DMBS + TS (Trailer Second) + TSL (Trailer Second Lavatory) + DMBS. They were high density sets with no gangway connections, with seats for three hundred and fifty two 2nd class passengers. Unusually they were fitted with hydraulic transmissions and Rolls Royce engines. Although initially designed with the standard “Blue Square” coupling code it was soon found that they did not make good partners with the standard mechanical transmission fitted diesel multiple units due the transmissions changing gear at different times. They were therefore recoded “Red Triangle” to avoid this problem. They were built for and rarely ventured from the intensively worked St. Pancras to Bedford suburban service and remained on these duties until electrification in 1983 when the power cars were generally withdrawn, although a few went into parcels use. A number of the trailers including M59609 were transferred to Tyseley for further use and was eventually withdrawn in September 1993.
Colours are used for signalling. Sometimes the they signal obvious things such that the lavatory is occupied.
Minamidera public lavatory, Honmura, Naoshima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
Architect: Tadao Ando, 2020
es ist blöd, wenn man auf Dielen steht, die so marode sind, dass sie jederzeit nachgeben könnten. Zwar konnten diese maximal um einen halben Meter nachgeben, weil dann der Erdboden erreicht war. Aber irgendwie fühlte ich mich doch nicht so richtig wohl...
No object is so ugly that, under certain conditions, it will not look beautiful.
(Original quote by Oscar Wilde : “No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.”)
Detail of the ironwork around the stairwell of an underground Victorian lavatory, disused and secured by wire fence panels.
Taken with a Sony Cybershot DSC-RX1R Full Frame camera.
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. . . The US Army Golden Knights parachute team readies to do their jumps at the Traverse City Airshow this past weekend! Must be kind of noisy flying like this!
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A fairly recent arrival at the Midland Railway Centre from the Llangollen Railway is Class 108 Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory (DTCL) M54490 stabled at Butterley, 2nd August 2018. Interestingly it is paired with M51907 its original partner from 1960 and the pair have been partners for virtually all of their careers, a rather unique feat
Unit History
The first of the class 108 "Derby Lightweight" DMUs emerged from Derby Works in 1958. This large class was developed from the earlier series of Derby Lightweight vehicles built in the mid-1950s. Vehicle bodies and underframes were of aluminium construction, except for the headstocks and certain diagonal members behind the buffers. Driving cabs, inner ends and buffer beams were of mild steel and cab roof domes were fibre glass mouldings. The high proportion of aluminium gave a weight saving compared to similar units and hence an improvement in power to weight ratio. They retained the lower side windows but had a new cab design. The class 108 design proved to be flexible and reliable in service, built to what became the mechanical standard. In all three hundred and thirty three individual vehicles were constructed with production ending in 1961. The class 108 vehicles were included in the DMU refurbishment programme which commenced at the end of 1975. Modifications were made to the carriage heating system, floor and wall coverings, seating material and saloon lighting, improving passenger comfort and extending vehicle life. Following refurbishment the units were initially painted a livery of white with broad blue bodyside stripe which ran from end to end below the passenger windows. Eventually this gave way to standard blue/grey livery. M56490 was originally paired with Driving Motor Brake Second M51907 and was one of twenty, two car sets built in 1960 for London Midland Region duties. It entered service in May 1960 and spent the majority of its career allocated to Longsight or Chester. It was refurbished in October 1977 and it was withdrawn from Longsight in February 1993 and entered preservation almost immediately at the Llangollen Railway
Lisboa – MAAT
The mens lavatory in the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology.
(38.69618, -09.19285); [90°]
I want one of these in my bathroom!
ABCs & 123s: T is for throne.
Connected (in the Connect group): a place to urinate.