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Vehicle 50523 / 53523


Class 104

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30294
Diagram: 558

Allocations

4w/e 25/01/58 New to 5B (Crewe South)
Apr-63 Transferred to 5D (Cockshute)
11/09/65 Transferred to 9D (Newton Heath)
May-73Depot code changeNH
09/03/86 Withdrawn from NH (Newton Heath)

Notes

2w/e 15/04/86 - 53471/53523 noted as Reinstated to NH for brake testing only

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50523 - original number
53523 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50471 59179 50523 As delivered to 5B - 4w/e 25/01/58
50471 59179 50523 Noted Aug-66 - at Brough1
50471 59179 50523 Noted Autumn 1966 - at Brough on 07:56 Hull - Manchester Exchange1
50471 59179 50523 Noted 20/07/68 - at Preston and Manchester1
50471 59179 50523 Noted 04/08/68 - in Manchester Victoria1
50471 59179 50523 Noted 16/08/70 - in Manchester Victoria2
50471 59179 50523 Noted 31/10/1972 - at Manchester Victoria3
50471 59179 50523 Noted 17/07/76 - in Manchester Victoria1
50471 59179 50523 Noted 10/09/76 - on Newton Heath depot2
50471 59179 50523 Noted circa 08/19814
NH450 50471 59179 50523 Noted circa 05/19824
50471 50523 Noted circa 10/19824
50471 50523 Noted circa 02/19834
53471 53523 Noted circa 05/19834

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

Class 104 DMU at possibly Swindon Works

Unknown date

Class 104 DMCL M50523, it and the Class 104 it faces (M50471) have repair work in progress. Thought to be taken at Swindon Works, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

Class 104 DMU at Manchester Exchange

August 1982

Two Birmingham RC&W Co. 3-car Local Passenger dmu's (Class 104) with the trailing unit being Nos.M50523 (Class 104/1), M59149 (169), M50443 (104/2) of the 1957 batch in BR Rail Blue livery with all yellow front end and white stripe (which signified a set with modified suspension specifically allocated to Blackpool services) passing Manchester (Exchange) - with the much loved but now closed Boddington's Brewery in the background - on a Manchester (Victoria) - Bolton - Blackpool service, 08/82. The carriage numbers were hurriedly taken at the time so may not be accurate! Hugh Llewelyn.

Class 104 DMU at Bolton

1st June 1985

Class 104 M53523 and M53471 arriving at Bolton 1st June 1985. Keith Long.

Class 104 DMU at Pages Crossing, Ulnes Walton

10th September 1985

Class 104 Driving Motor Second Lavatory (DMSL) M53523 was passing over Pages Crossing as it was approaching Midge Hall with an Ormskirk to Preston service on September 11th 1985. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 104 DMU at Ulnes Walton

11th September 1985

Class 104 53523 leads a Preston to Ormskirk service along the former double track mainline at Pages Crossing, Ulnes Walton, just west of Midge Hall on the 11th September 1985. The white trackside building is an extended former crossing keepers cottage, an occupation crossing still serves farms on both sides of the railway here. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 104 DMU at Vic Berrys

22nd June 1986

Class 104s 53523 (left) and 53459 await their fate at Vic Berry's, 22/6/86. Ian Francis.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: unknown

Class 104 DMBS M50471 facing M50523. Thought to be in Swindon Works, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

DMU

Date: August 1982

Two very smokey Birmingham RC&W Co.3-car Local Passenger dmu's (Class 104) Nos.M50463 (Class 104/2), M59140 (169), M50515 (104/1) of the 1957 batch in BR Rail Blue livery with all yellow front end and another set Nos.M50443 (104/2), M59149 (169), M50523 (Class 104/1) of the 1957 batch with a Blackpool-service white stripe passing Manchester (Exchange) on a Manchester (Victoria) - Bolton - Blackpool service, 08/82. The carriage numbers were hurriedly taken at the time so may not be accurate. Hugh Llewelyn.