Vehicle 56071 / 54071

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Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30262
Diagram: 630

Allocations

31/07/57	New to	54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
3w/e 18/06/66	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
3w/e 05/08/67	Transferred to	50C (Hull Botanic Gardens)
May-73	Depot code change	BG
w/e 12/10/74	Transferred to	LN (Lincoln)
w/e 25/01/75	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
w/e 21/06/75	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
w/e 04/09/77	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 09/10/77	Transferred to	DN (Darlington)
13/05/84	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)	- Darlington closed
04/10/87	Transferred to	NH (Newton Heath)
31/03/89	Transferred to	CP
17/05/89	Withdrawn from	CP PXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56071 - original number
54071 - from Oct-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

24/12/76 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 22/05/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50219	56071							As delivered to 54A - 31st July 1957
	50229	56071							Noted 05/09/66 - at Leeds City1
	51444	56071							Noted 12/07/68 - in Leeds City1
	51444	56071							Noted 08/08/68 - in Leeds City1
	51229	56071							Noted 28/08/1972 - at Scarborough2
	51444	56071							Transfer to NL - w/e 21/06/75
	51444	56071							Noted 25/10/75 - at Leeds1
	51444	56071							Noted 10/04/76 - at Leeds1
	51246	56071							Transfer to DN - w/e 09/10/77
	51205	56071							Noted 07/08/1978 - at Redcar2
	51205	56071							Noted 17/08/78 - on 15:00 Newcastle - South Shields3
	51226	56071							Noted 29/07/81 - at Darlington4
	51223	56071							Noted 15/05/82 - on a Darlington-Saltburn service
	50153	56071							Noted circa 10/19825
N617	53944	54071							Listed at NH - May-88
	53848	54071							Listed at NH - May 1988
N657	53848	54071							Noted circa Jul-88

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

Images:

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26th July 1957

Two 2-car newly completed Met-Camm sets at Saltley ready for delivery on July 26th 1957. The nearest vehicle, DTC E56071, carries displays in the windows noting it is the 250th railcar built for British Railways. The vehicles were destined for Sunderland depot. Metropolitan Cammell.

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15th May 1982

Class 101 E56071 + E51223 operates a Darlington-Saltburn service at South Bank on May 15, 1982. John Carter.

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26th July 1986

54071 is seen on the rear of a Carlisle - Newcastle service entering Haltwhistle station at 18:25 on Saturday 26/7/86. Mel Holley.

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14th July 1988

A Class 101/116 set (E54071 + W53848) in Morecambe station on the 14th July 1988. Hamish Stevenson.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 17th March 1983

In a scene barely recognisable as the same today, Metropolitan-Cammell Class 101 unit 50157 + 56071, forming a Bishop Auckland to Saltburn service, passes the soon to be barren waste ground of the former Teesside Works Lackenby blast furnaces at Grangetown on 17th March 1983. The South Bank coke ovens are just out of view to the left and the converter at the Lackenby plant, under demolition in 2022, is to be seen above the railway as it curves away to the left. Image taken by Roy Burt. Gordon Edgar Collection.