Vehicle 50012 / 53012

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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

27/11/56	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50012 - original number
53012 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 16/12/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50012	56012							As delivered to 40A - 27th November 1956
	50011	56012	50012						Noted 1957
	50012	56012							Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster1
	50012	56012							Noted 03/09/1971 - at York1
	50012	56021							Noted 20/04/73 - at Sleaford2
	50012	56021							Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster3
	50012	56039							Noted 24/08/74 - at Cleethorpes2
	50012	56011							Noted 27/08/1974 - at Doncaster4
	50012	56027							Noted 03/01/75 - in Leeds City2
	50012	56026							Noted 13/09/1975 - at Cleethorpes4
	50012	56026							Noted 27/10/75 - at Brough3
	50012	56030							Noted 08/04/1976 - at Retford4
	50012	56021							Noted 23/11/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2
	50012	56021							Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
	50012	56043							Noted 08/05/1982 - Special Train Cleethorpes-Spalding 50039-56001+56049-50033+50012-56043
	53012	54043							Noted circa 10/19835
	53012	54033							Noted circa 01/19865
	53012	54033							Noted 17/05/86 - on 15:47 Leeds - Blackpool North diverted due to Holme Tunnel blockage6
	53012	54033							Noted 07/02/87 - on 1710 Cleethorpes-Doncaster hauled by 37065, unit failed at Scunthorpe, also hauled by 37065 on 1945 Doncaster-Lincoln.
	53012	54003							Noted 26/05/1987 - L.C.G.B. (North West Branch) The South Yorkshireman Railtour 78714-78964 + 53012-54003

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

Images:

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Unknown date

Two Derby Heavyweight sets in Lincoln Central station, date unknown. E50012 is on the right. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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28th May 1978

Lots of Rail Blue at the east end of Sheffield Midland station on 28th May 1978 but not many passengers about. I suspect these two BR Derby Class 114 dmus are stabled between duties while the one on the far left (Metro-Cam Class 101) had just arrived from Doncaster. Pete LG99.

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Unknown date

A Class 114 DMU with DMBS E50012 closest - the DTCL is probably E56040 - on a Doncaster service seen in platform 1a on Sheffield station, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

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January 1983

A Huddersfield-bound DMU pulls into the staggered platforms at Shepley station on the Penistone line in January 1983. It is formed of a Class 114 - E50012 seems to be leading - and a two-car Met-Camm. Andrew Walker.

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25th May 1987

Class 114s 53012 + 54003 with the 10.20 Grimsby Town - Sheffield at Broughton Lane on 25 May 1987. Dave Warby Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 10th June 1978

Derby Class 114 DMU 56021 + 50012 at Sheffield, 10th June 1978. Tiptree Jon.

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Date: unknown

A Class 114 DMU with DTCL E56040 closest - the DMBS is probably E50012 - on a Doncaster service seen in platform 1a on Sheffield station, date unknown. Paul Redmond.