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31st August 1987
Vehicle: 51381 Set: L405
L405 (presumably 51381 + 59491 + 51340) is seen at Appleford on an Oxford - Reading service, 31st August 1987. Hamish Stevenson.
24th May 1990
Vehicle: 51212 Set: L201
NSE liveried Met-Camm set L201 (presumably 51212 + 54070) arrives at Appleford with the 4.42pm Didcot - Oxford service on May 24, 1990. Michael Mensing.
14th September 1983
Vehicle: 51356 Set: L419
Appleford station, photographed on 14 September 1983. A Class 117 DMU (set L419 with cars 51356/59508/51398) is calling with a stopping Oxford-Paddington service. Note the GWR "pagodas" on each platform. Lewis Bevan.
9th May 1964
Vehicle: 59502
Passing Pressed Steel units just south of Appleford Halt on May 9, 1964. On the left 59502 and 51350 are part of the 7.28pm Oxford - Reading service, on the right a six-car formation works the 6.58pm Reading-Oxford. Michael Mensing.
11th September 1971
Vehicle: 51305 Set: 470
Appleford Halt on 11 September 1971. Although the track has been relaid with concrete sleepers, the Halt itself still retains its GWR features - wooden platforms, the pagoda-shaped corrugated iron waiting shelters, and (off to the right) a brown and cream "APPLEFORD HALT" nameboard. BRC&W unit 470 (presumably 51305 + 59472 + 51320) is entering with the 17.20 Oxford to Paddington train. No doubt I'd visited Pendon, a modest walk across the meadows from here. Tom Burnham.
3rd July 1987
Vehicle: 55031 Set: L131
The first of RGs allocation of Class 121 'Bubble cars' to wear Network South East livery, 55031, is resplendent in its new colours as it runs ECS towards Appleford on an Oxford - Didcot working .... 3rd July 1987. Nigel Mack.
22nd March 1991
Vehicle: 54381 Set: L210
Class 101/116 hybrid DMU set L210 (presumably 54381 + 53083) at Appleford on 22 May 1991 with Reading displayed on the destination blind. Brian Daniels.
9th May 1964
Vehicle: 51058 Set: 513
Tyseley allocated W51058 leads a GRC&W Cross-Country and a suburban triple DMU south of Appleford with the 4.40pm Wolverhampton Low Level - Didcot service on 9 May 1964. Michael Mensing.
1976
Set: L420
Two Class 117 DMUs, L420 leading, arrives into Appleford station with an Oxford service sometime (looks like summer) in 1976. Stuart Mackay Collection.
3rd July 1987
Vehicle: 51337 Set: L404
The staple motive power for local services on the London Division of the Western Region for over 25 years has been the Pressed Steel built Class 117 DMUs. Here, approaching Appleford, with a late afternoon stopping service from Oxford - Reading on 3rd July 1987 is set L404 formed of W51337 + W59489 + W51379. W51337 + W59489 + W51379 were delivered new to 81D, Reading, in March 1960, and remained as a set at the Berkshire depot until W51337 was withdrawn on 22nd October 1990. W59489 remained at RG until 20th March 1992 before being transferred to TS and then HA, from where it was withdrawn in April 1998, whilst W51379 lingered on at RG until its withdrawal on 27th March 1992. All three vehicles were later scrapped. The two Driving cars meeting their fate at Booth's of Rotherham and the trailer at MC Metals, Springburn/ Nigel Mack.
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