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Vehicle 56404 / 54404


Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30468
Diagram: 630

Allocations

w/e 12/07/58 New to 62B (Dundee)
3w/e 30/04/66 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
5w/e 04/02/67 Transferred to 66C (Hamilton)
May-68 Transferred to 64H (Leith Central)
Mar-72 Transferred to 62B (Dundee)
May-73Depot code changeDE
4w/e 30/04/77 Transferred to HA (Haymarket)
25/12/77 Transferred to GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78 Transferred to HT (Heaton)
11/05/86 Transferred to BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
29/03/87 Transferred to NC (Norwich)
31/03/88 Withdrawn from NC (Norwich)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56404 - original number
54404 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 17/10/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


51246 56404 As delivered to 62B - July 1958
51245 56404 Transfer to 66C - 5w/e 04/02/67
51235 56404 Noted 11/09/71 - at Edinburgh Waverley1
51244 56404 Noted 06/04/72 - in Edinburgh Waverley1
51244 56404 Noted 26/07/1973 - at Edinburgh Waverley2
51244 56404 Noted 04/09/73 - at Haymarket3
56404 Noted 13/08/77 - on Haymarket depot, loose vehicle3
51252 56404 Noted 14/02/81 - on 15:30 Newcastle - South Shields
50229 56404 Noted circa 02/19834
53205 54404 Noted circa 02/19864
53167 54404 Noted circa 10/19864
73 53252 54404 Noted 05/04/87 - at Norwich3
70 53252 54404 Noted 30/05/1987 - at Norwich Crown Point5
70 53252 54404 Noted circa 08/19874
73 53252 54404 Listed at NC - Dec-87

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

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Tyne Dock

14th February 1981

In rapidly fading Winter sunlight, cars E56404 E51252 call at Tyne Dock with the 15:30 Newcastle - South Shields on 14/2/81. British Rail services came to an end soon after in May 1981 to make way for the Tyneside Metro system. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Class 101 DMU at Ely

22nd December 1987

A Class 101 / 105 formation with E54404 + E53252 / E53359 + E54122 is seen near Ely on December 22nd, 1987. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 101 DMU at Norwich

1988

Two withdrawn Met-Camm driver trailers in Norwich sometime in 1988. E54404 is on the left, 54058 on the right, both went to Snailwell in February 1989 and were burned very quickly. A Cravens DMBS is on the left, possibly 51292. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: September 1979

Ex-works E50251 at the front of a Newcastle service at Carlisle in September 1979. Paired with a plain-blue driver trailer, which seems to be 56404, and working with a Cravens set. Karel 1999.

DMU

Date: 14th February 1981

DMBS E51252 and DTS(L) E56404 are seen working the 14:38 South Shields - Newcastle, just departed from High Shields station, which is visible in the background to the extreme left, on 14/2/81. This station closed on 30/05/1981, and the route was converted to the Tyneside Metro network - this station did not survive, Chichester station being constructed at a different location. Surviving structures on the skyline include the gasometer (left, behind station), and South Shields Town Hall clock tower (centre right). Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: 30th July 1989

Set number: 73

E53252 still carries its former Norwich set number 73 on the front window (which was with trailer E54404). At Snailwell on 30 July 1989. Nicholas Youngman.