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Vehicle 50415


Class 109

Builder: Wickham
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30288
Diagram: 606

Allocations

08/08/57 New to 30A (Stratford)
Nov-58 Transferred to 31A (Cambridge)
03/09/61 Withdrawn from 31A (Cambridge) - Sold back to Wickhams

Notes

28-30 Jun-57 - E50415 / incomplete Wickham trailer / W79083 / W79471 exhibited at the Modern Railway Travel exhibition at Battersea Wharf.

Disposal

Sep-61 - Sold back to Wickham who then sold it to the Trinidad Government Railway

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50415 56170 As delivered to 30A - 9th August 1957
50415 56170 Noted 1st September 1957
50415 56170 Noted 1st September 1957
50415 56171 Noted 22nd March 1958

Images:

Class 109 DMU at Ware

June 1957

A brand new E50415 outside the works at Wickhams in Ware in June 1957. It is displaying the manufacturer's name on the destination blind. Wickham.

Inside a Class 109 DMU

circa June 1957

A Wickham image (negative W/262) showing the interior of DMBS E50415 in the yard at their works, circa June 1957. Wickham.

Detail of a Class 109 DMU

circa June 1957

A Wickham image (negative W/274) showing DMBS E50415 circa June 1957. This was a matted version of another print that was widely distributed of the vehicle outside the company works. Wickham.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 26th November 1959

A Wickham DMU with E56170 and presumably E50415 in Cambridge station on 26 November 1959. The two vehicles would be exported to Trinidad a couple of years later. Stuart Mackay Collection.

DMU

Date: 22nd February 1986

Class 109 Trinidad Wickham Port of Spain 22 February 1986. In the early '80s I worked as a Property Manager for British Airways and was sent to all sorts of exotic places. On a visit to Trinidad I came across these two Wickham half coach front ends welded back to back which had been used as a café in one of the outer suburbs of the capital Port of Spain. Along with some others dumped behind the old railway station downtown I reckon at that time there were enough parts surviving from all four coaches E50415, 50419 and E56170, 56174 exported in late 1961 but I am unable to say which ones were which and they almost certainly won't exist now. A letter from me along with this picture was published in Rail Magazine in issue 337, August 12-25 1998. Alistair Ness.