A RAIL museum has welcomed a new arrival which helps tell the story of electric trains and community transport.
Locomotion at Shildon, County Durham, has taken delivery of the last three surviving Class 306 electric vehicles.
Electric Multiple Unit set number 306 017, which consists of vehicles 65217, 65417 and 65617, has been brought to the museum from East Anglian Railway Museum, which has had it on loan from the National Railway Museum since 2011, ahead of restoration work.
Introduced in 1949, class 306 trains were built to a pre-Second World War LNER design by Metro Cammell and Birmington Railway Carriage and Wagon Company and were equipped with English Electric traction equipment.
The class was made up of 92 three-car trains, which were used on a newly electrified route between Shenfield and London Liverpool Street.
They were withdrawn from service in the 1980s with only this group remaining.
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