1970
A 4-car set at Boldon Colliery (Co. Durham) working the 1620 Newcastle-Sunderland (Graeme Phillips)
Mistley with a Harwich service (Roy Dixon)
A DMCL (50542-593) stabled alongside a Cravens Class 105 at Hull Botanic Gardens depot (John Turner)
1971
A driving trailer (56185-189) on the rear of a 6-car formation (4+2) passing Brough (John Law)
A 3-car set with a DMCL (50542-593) closest the camera departs Custom House (John Law)
Stratford. This vehicle is quite possibly the same one as featured in the previous photograph (John Law)
The "Boomerang" railtour, formed with a 3-car set, at Kensington Olympia (John Law)
A 3-car set operating "the branch" at Southminster (John Law)
A 3-car set calls at Tottenham Hale (John Law)
1972
A 3-car set at North Woolwich ready to work back to Stratford Low Level (BRCW Collection)
The "Boomerang" tour waits to leave London Liverpool Street. The same photographer captured the "Boomerang" in 1971 - was this a series of excursions? (John Law)
1973
Hull Botanic Gardens Depot (Lindsay James Walters)
At York a DMCL (50542-593) is leading a Transpennine set, no doubt a Hull vehicle substituting for a failed Class 124 DMCL (Alan Rintoul)
1974
A Stratford-Tottenham Hale service at Stratford (Kevin Lane)
A power/trailer set (56185-189) leaves Ilkley with an Ilkley-Bradford Forster Square service (Alan Rintoul)
Scarborough (R W Carroll Collection)
A 2-car set arriving into Leeds with a Class 108 behind. The lead vehicle is one of the five DMBS vehicles, 50594-598 (Alan Wass)
An unidentified DMCL waits to depart Scarborough with the 16:18 to York (Geoffrey Skelsey)
An original formation 4-car set at Garforth with a Hull service (53A Models of Hull Collection)
1975
Spalding Town (P Miller)
A strange formation at Beverley, on the 17.20 Leeds to Bridlington. The 104 DMCL appears to be leading a Class 101 composite vehicle in a 2-car set with no brakevan, with a further 2-car set behind that presumably includes a brake! Alternatively this may be a 4-car set with one of the centre cars including an erroneous cab (Keith Holt)
North Woolwich (Alan Young)
A 4-car set at Nottingham prior to working a service to Skegness (David Ford)
Hull. 15:48 Hull-Scarborough (E56471 on right) (Jeremy Chapter)
8-car formation at Kirkham Abbey. Scarborough-York or beyond? (Phil Binding)
A 3-car set at Stratford, with a brand new class 312 visible on the left (RCTS)
1976
Stratford Depot (Frank Cheevers)
A 4-car set calling at Hutton Cranswick at 16:38, whilst working the 1535 Scarborough-Hull (Graeme Phillips)
A 4-car set at Beverley, working the 1535 Scarborough-Hull (Graeme Phillips)
The driver of this 3-car set enjoys a cigarette at Southminster (David Hayes)
A 3-car set arriving into Reedham (David Hayes)
3-car set 81 at Cromer with a service to Sheringham (Ernie Brack)
Set 85 at Whittlesey - possibly 50557 or 50571 (R W Carroll Collection)
A 3-car set arriving into Romford. This photo shows the common practice of leaving a tail lamp on both ends of the set (regardless of direction of travel) which would shuttle many times along the relatively short branch (John Law)
Southminster (Ian Dinmore)
1977
A 3-car set passing floods & rain at Ratcliffe-on-Soar (David Ford)
A 4-car passes Rotherham Masborough bound for Manchester (Kevin Lane)
One of the 5 DMBS vehicles (50594-598) at Westerfield with a Felixstowe service (Geoffrey Skelsey)
Attleborough with a Norwich service (Geoffrey Skelsey)
A 3-car set calls at Battlesbridge, on the Southminster branch (Neil Bunt)
The DTCL of set 84 at Norwich. The visible sleepers under the vehicle would suggest this is one of the five trailers, 56185-189 (Nigel Scarlett)
1978
West Monkseaton, North Tyneside, on the 1205 Newcastle-Benton-coast-Newcastle, on the last day of services around the entire North Tyneside loop (Graeme Phillips)
West Monkseaton, North Tyneside, on the 1225 Newcastle-Newcastle circular service on the last day of services around the entire North Tyneside loop (Graeme Phillips)
A vehicle outside Doncaster Works (in the distance!), with several locos closer to the camera (Chris Lings)
A set at Strensall (pinzac55)
A 4-car set departing Selby, with the 1125 Selby-York (Graeme Phillips)
A 3-car set on a Hull working at Seamer, taken at 16:00 in the last of the daylight (pinzac55)
Set 66 at Felixstowe (John Atkinson)
1979
One of the five DMBSs, 50594-598, on a Cleethorpes-Doncaster working arrives into it's destination (Bill Ford)
Percy Main (Stephen McGahon)
Sheringham (Alistair Ness)
West Monkseaton
Set 80 at March with a Norwich service
A 2-car set at Brundall, this is likely to be one of the driving trailers, 56185-189 (Geoffrey Skelsey)
A set at Cullercoats with a West Monkseaton-Newcastle Central via Tynemouth service (Pete Newman)
In the Car Sheds at South Gosforth Depot, just before Metro takeover. The vehicle could be any from 50542/6/8/55/6/64/5/8/70/4/6/7/89/93 (Peter Robinson)
A set north of Newcastle station, with the platform ends of Manors station in view around the curve (Graeme Phillips)
Newcastle Central (John Atkinson)
A set at Morecambe working a Morecambe-Leeds service. M56270 is in the background (John Atkinson)
A 3-car set at March (Brian Daniels)
Set 80 at Yarmouth Vauxhall (Ian Royston)
Set 49 at Cromer with a Sheringham-Norwich working (H Quayle)
A full 4-car set at Settle Junction on a Morecambe-Leeds working (Les Nixon)
Set 35 at Lowestoft, with one of the E56185-189 batch leading (Roger Geach)
Three sets at Wymondham
On the climb from Cullercoats to Tynemouth. The open land on the right is called "Beaconsfield"(Simon Hadden)