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Vehicle 50025 / 53025


Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp / Albion 238hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30209
Diagram: 516

Allocations

11/01/57 New to 40A (Lincoln)
May 1973Depot code changeLN
10/05/87 Stored U. LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88 Withdrawn from LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50025 - original number
53025 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 15/12/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50025 56025 As delivered to 40A - 11th January 1957
50025 56025 Noted 05/08/66 - at Leeds City1
50025 56025 Noted May 1968
50025 56004 Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster2
50025 56025 Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster1
50025 56025 Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham3
50025 56025 Noted 17/04/74 - at Leeds with 50039/560291
50025 56025 Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield1
50025 56025 Noted 24/08/74 - at Grantham4
50025 56025 Noted 30/08/1974 - at Sheffield3
50025 56025 Noted 20/09/1975 - R.C.T.S. Lincoln Imp RailTour
50025 56002 Noted 04/09/76 - at Sheffield1
50025 56029 Noted 27/08/77 - on 0953 Cleethorpes-Sheffield with 50015 + 56015
50025 56029 Noted 24/09/77 - in Sheffield Midland4
50025 56044 Noted 02/02/78 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50025 56014 Noted 29/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds4
50025 56004 Noted 20/06/1979 - Seen at Barrow in Furness on a school excursion with 50017-560325
50025 56004 Noted 04/07/1979 - Walton Girls Secondary School special train Grantham-Norwich and return 50031-56036+56004-50025
50025 56017 Noted circa 10/19825
53025 54017 Noted circa 10/19835
53025 54006 Noted 08/05/1984 - At Sheffield5
53025 54006 Noted 24/02/86 - at Norwich4
53025 54006 Noted circa 05/19865
53025 54006 Noted 11/12/19865
53025 54006 Noted 24/04/1987 - at Leeds6

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Robert Chilton

Images:

Class 114 DMU at Grantham

20th September 1975

E50025 + E56025 in the bay platform at Grantham with the RCTS "Lincoln Imp" railtour on 20 September 1975. On the left 47 458 prepares to depart with a northbound service. Ian Cuthbertson Collection.

Class 114 DMU at Whatstandwell

2nd October 1976

A Class 114 DMU, led by DMBS E50025, arrives at Whatstandwell, Derbyshire, with a service to Derby, Saturday 02/10/1976. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 114 DMU at Sheffield

6th July 1978

Four Class 114 DMUs are seen in Sheffield station on 6 July 1978. E50025 is closest on the right with the 10:41 to Leeds, the set in the adjacent road will work the 10.55 to Retford. Michael Mensing.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 23rd July 1981

Barton-on-Humber station photographed on 23 July 1981. The train is the 12.00 to Cleethorpes, formed of Class 114 2-car DMU consisting of 56017/50025. Lewis Bevan.

DMU

Date: 4th December 1988

Class 114s E54021, E53013 and E53025 at Snailwell on December 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.