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(British Rail), Class 230, “Pop-up Metro” Battery Electric Multiple Units (BEMU’s) 230002 & 230011, Rockhill Trolley Museum, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania USA. Friday 20 June 2025

It’s complicated, very complicated.

230002 was rebuilt by Vivarail at Long Marston in 2018 as a two car BEMU from former London Transport D78 underground trains built 1978 – 1981. The two Driving Motor cars are numbered 300002 (ex. LT 7122) and 300102 (ex. LT 7067). Each Driving Motor carries two batteries. In 2020 a centre carriage was added 300202 (ex. LT 17091). In April 2021 the train was exported to the Rockhill Trolley Museum, Rockhill Furnace, Pennsylvania USA, minus its centre carriage which was later scrapped in October 2022.

In 2021 an additional two car unit was built by Vivarail, 230011 although both carriages were just Driving Trailer cars, numbered 300011 and 300111 (I do not know there former LT identies). This unit was exported to the USA in April 2022. Both the units are owned by ‘Railroad Development Corporation’ (RDC). They were paid for by RDC and delivered before Vivarail went bust. Both units are in an orange, silver and black livery.

After the arrival of the second unit 230011 the two units were split in half, with Driver Trailer 300111 being swapped for Driver Motor 300102, thus you ended up with two battery trains (although with half the range). The reformed units now became 230002 (ii) and 230011 (ii) although too further complicate it the original end unit numbers remained as shown below:

230002 (ii) is now 230002/230011, 300002 DM 300111 DT

230011 (ii) is now 230002/230011, 300102 DM 300011 DT

Confused yet, I certainly am!

230002 (ii) is well and truly securely locked up inside a separate part of Car Barn 2 where there is strictly no admission and it cannot be seen from outside or from inside the main car barn area. If possible when visiting heritage railways and tramways I try to venture in to areas that that the general public are forbidden to go as that is where the most interesting stuff is normally kept. However on this occasion I had no chance whatsoever as the adjoining part of the car barn had no windows and it was not possible to crawl underneath the walls of the building. It appears to be easier to get inside the Louvre and pinch the French crown jewels than it is to see a train!

230011 (ii) is stored outside adjacent to Car Barn 1 where access was not easy; although possible as you can see in the accompanying photographs.

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Danemark : le pays des grands ponts et des trains rapides : DSB - Chemins de Fer de l"Etat Danois - Danske Statsbaner : 1935 : construction of the Pont sur le Petit-Belt by Lili Réthi by mikeyashworth

A fascinating French language travel brochure issued by the Danske Statsbaner - here as the Chemins de Fer de l"Etat Danois and in English the Danish State Railways - and published in 1935. I have to admit it was the cover, by Erik Frederiksen, that caught my eye but the graphic design of that is not the only thing of interest in this samll, well produced brochure.

The booklet gives details of travel routes, by sea and railway, to Denmark and then about the trains and services of the DSB. It was produced to coincide with the completion of the Lillebælt -Little Belt railway bridge in 1935, that was followed in 1937 by the bridging of the Storstrømmen and the following year by that of the Oddesund. These routes can be seen on the map of the country in the centre of the booklet that is by Poul Sæbye.

These bridges, connecting the various islands and peninsular areas of the country helped drive a decade of innovation for DSB and that included the new lyntog (lightning trains), the high speed diesel multiple units that are also described in the booklet. But perhaps the most striking illustrations are by an artist who was to be well known for her drawings of engineering and infrastructure such as the bridges described here; Lili Réthi.

Réthi (1894 - 1969) was a talented Austrian born artist who from the 1920s became noted for her drawings of industrial and engineering projects. Réthi left her base in Germany in 1934, in order to avoid a commission from Hermann Göring, on the grounds that she had accepted a commission in Denmark. This, I suspect, was that commission.

She moved to the UK and, in the late 1930s, undertook commissions from the London Midland & Scottish Railway and the GPO, the latter for work showing the Post Office Railway, before emigrating to New York in 1939. As an American citizen Réthi became famous for her work as an artist and illustrator, most famously for her work depicting the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge.

All this in an understated tourist brochure.

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