I have very fond memories of the 101s. As a young kid in the early 70s my dad would take me from Edinburgh Waverley over to Fife via the Forth Bridge and the units were always 101s. This was in the good old days when you could see out the front and watch the driver. The units did have a very distinctive smell which was a curious mixture if metal, upholstery and diesel fumes. The units of today just seem to totally lack any character of their own.:cool:

This'll take you back a while Comet

Regards, 62440.

101 memories? Down here in Cornwall after the 'Skippers' (142's) farce we got a 'motley' collection of 101/108's until the second generation units eventually arrived, the windows vibrated like anything on the 101's....:D

Around here we seemed to get 114's with 110/123/124's
But we did get the renumbered 104/108's

Some of it to do with the fact that test runs from Derby Works went
Derby-Clay Cross- Barrow Hill - Chesterfield - Clay Cross - Derby

So we were lucky which is why I have some nice 35mm slides of the old Class 252/3 as single cars

in fact I am trying to identify one a driving car numbered 56097 it LOOKS like a Derby Lightweight but the number is way out