Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30465
Diagram: 543
03/10/59 | New to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
2w/e 26/03/60 | On loan to | 64H (Leith Central) | |
Oct-60 | Transferred to | 14E (Bedford) | |
4w/e 30/12/61 | Transferred to | 18A (Toton) | |
4w/e 02/06/62 | Transferred to | 24F (Fleetwood) | |
5w/e 06/10/62 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 9D | |
Apr-66 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
4w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 10E (Accrington) | |
02/11/69 | Withdrawn from | 10E (Accrington) |
Scrapped by R Taylor, on location at Accrington depot
50984 | 56267 | As delivered to 26A - October 1959 | |||||||
50984 | 56267 | Transfer to 64H - 2w/e 09/04/60 - on loan | |||||||
50984 | 56267 | Transfer to 14E - Oct-60 - ex-loan | |||||||
N450 | 50142 | 50984 | 59060 | 50182 | Noted 29/08/74 - at Darlington, set number on solebars: 50142 N450, 59048 N458, 59060 N450, 50182 N4541 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
A two-car (blue square) Derby lightweight DMU (M50984 leading) with a Bedford - Northampton service in mid-September 1961 at Bedford. Note all the Bed-Pan sets in the sidings. Michael Mensing.
A Bedford - Northampton service is seen at Oakley on 18 September 1961. Formed of a (blue square) Derby Lightweight DMU, the DMBS is Bletchley allocated M50984. Michael Mensing.
A two-car blue square Derby Lightweight DMU led by M50984 is seen leaving Bedford Midland Road with the 10.03am to Northampton service on 18 September 1961. Michael Mensing.
A (blue square) Derby Lightweight DMU at Grange-over-Sands on 19 August 1967. The vehicles - M56267 and M50984 - were allocated to Accrington at the time. My late father, Stanley Smith, rarely took pictures with trains in them, this was a rare exception. It is from a 1 5/8 x 2 1/4 slide taken on a pre-war Zeiss Bellows camera. That's me with my back to the photographer on the wall. Nicholas T Smith Collection.