







Virgin Trains DVT Class 82127, Wolverton

Photo: Charles Moorhen





UK Virgin Trains Mk3 Driving Van Trailer Class 82127, in early Virgin striped livery, is photographed standing in Wolverton station in April 2005 while operating a passenger service heading north along the West Coast Main Line from London Euston to the north.





A Driving Van Trailer, such as the one above, was a class of purpose-built control car, allowing the driver to operate the locomotive from the opposite end of the train, using the DVT as the leading vehicle.





Built by British Rail Engineering Ltd., Metro-Cammell, Breda. Mk3 Class 82127 was one of a fleet of 52 units bearing the numbers 82101 - 82152.





Virgin Trains operated the Mk3 DVT on push-pull services on the West Coast Main Line (WCML) between London Euston, Liverpool Lime Street, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow in conjunction with locomotive classes 86 , 87 and 90.





This operating procedure came to an end with the introduction of the Class 390 Pendolino electric multiple unit tilting trains in 2002.









Wolverton railway station historical note:

It was at Wolverton railway station in Buckinghamshire, on the 9th September 1845, that bare-knuckle fighter, Bendigo, stepped from a carriage of a London & Birmingham Railway train surrounded by a horde of his supporters.





His destination was the nearby town of Newport Pagnell where it was arranged that he would take part in an illegal fight with Ben Court.





At the last possible moment, for various reasons, the venue was switched to the village of Lillington Lovell, 4 miles north of Buckingham.





The match went ahead with Bendigo being heralded the winner after 96 gruelling rounds.









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