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Vehicle 56064 / 54064


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

06/06/57 New to 54A (Sunderland)
Jun-57 On loan to 9A (Longsight)
3w/e 03/08/57 Ex-loan back to 54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58 Transferred to South Gosforth
Feb-64Depot code change52J
May-73Depot code changeGF
w/e 30/01/77 Transferred to NL (Neville Hill)
28/09/86 Transferred to CA (Cambridge)
18/01/87 Transferred to NC (Norwich)
14/06/87 Withdrawn from NC (Norwich)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56064 - original number
54064 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 30/03/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50212 56064 As delivered to 54A - 6th June 1957
50212 56064 Noted 17th June 1957
50212 56064 Transfer to 54A - 3w/e 03/08/1957 - ex-loan LMR
50257 56064 Noted 31/08/71 - at Newcastle1
51210 56064 Noted 06/04/72 - at Newcastle1
50257 56064 Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle2
50257 56064 Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield1
50257 56064 Noted 26/08/74 - at Newcastle Central3
50257 56064 Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot3
50257 56064 Transfer to NL - w/e 30/01/77
50296 56064 Noted 10/08/77 - at Morecambe Promenade
50296 56064 Noted circa 11/19784
50296 56064 Noted 26/04/80 - at York3
50296 56064 Noted circa 02/19834
53296 54064 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
53296 54064 Noted 19th August 1986
18 53296 54064 Formation change - CA - circa Dec-86
18 53296 54064 Noted 12/12/19864
53296 54064 Noted 19/01/87 - at Norwich3
18 53296 54064 Noted 01/02/1987 - at Ely on 11.04 Kings Lynn to Cambridge.5
80 53296 54064 Listed at NC - Apr-87
80 53296 54064 Noted 30/05/1987 - at Norwich6

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

Images:

Class 101 DMU at Morecambe Promenade

10th August 1977

Its the 10th August 1977, and E56064 & E50296 are at Morecambe Promenade on the Lancaster Shuttle. Robert Frise.