First introduced in the early 1950s, the diesel multiple-unit represented an attempt to produce a vehicle that would replace steam traction on the countrys bran

Although the first diesel multiple-units (DMUs) first appeared in the 1930s and the first of the Derby lightweight units shortly after Nationalisation, it was t

With its network of rural and secondary routes, East Anglia was an obvious place to employ some of the first generation of Diesel Multiple-Units (DMUs), introdu

Andrew Cole looks at the first generation of DMUs.