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
01/01/57 | New to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
2w/e 02/05/59 | Transferred to | 41A (Darnall) | |
2w/e 30/04/61 | Transferred to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | LN | |
21/06/87 | Stored U. | LN (Lincoln) | |
04/10/87 | To Parcels Sector at | CA (Cambridge) | |
circa Dec-88 | Sector Change to | RPXN | |
02/05/90 | Withdrawn from | CA (Cambridge) RPXX |
50020 - original number
53020 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Oct-87 - Converted for parcels use
28/01/70 - Dowdyke Bank Level Crossing, between Spalding and Boston, ER
Collision involving Class 114 / Road Tanker
Info from Peter Mullen
A tanker traversing the crossing was struck by the DMU (50020 & 56020) travelling at 50mph. More Details.
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50020 | 56020 | As delivered to 40A - 1st January 1957 | |||||||
50020 | 56021 | 50021 | Noted 1st June 1957 | ||||||
50020 | 56020 | Noted Aug-66 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50020 | 56039 | Noted 16th May 1968 | |||||||
50020 | 56041 | Noted May 1968 | |||||||
50020 | 56020 | Noted 21/08/68 - at Leeds City with 51286 + 564421 | |||||||
50020 | 56020 | Noted 02/01/70 - in Sheffield Midland2 | |||||||
50020 | 56020 | 28/01/70 | |||||||
50020 | 56036 | Noted 02/05/70 - at Doncaster1 | |||||||
50020 | 56008 | Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1 | |||||||
50020 | 56010 | Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster2 | |||||||
50020 | 56010 | Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 50006 + 560081 | |||||||
50020 | 56010 | Noted 10/09/73 - at Grantham2 | |||||||
50020 | 56014 | Noted 05/07/74 - at Doncaster1 | |||||||
50020 | 56014 | Noted 04/09/74 - in Sheffield Midland2 | |||||||
50020 | 56037 | Noted 03/07/1975 - at Derby3 | |||||||
50020 | 56005 | Noted 07/02/76 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50020 | 56026 | Noted 24/09/77 - at Nottingham2 | |||||||
50020 | 56026 | Noted 20/12/77 - at Nottingham2 | |||||||
50020 | 56026 | Noted 20/05/78 - at Bury St Edmunds2 | |||||||
50020 | 56015 | Noted November 1980 | |||||||
50020 | 56021 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||||
50020 | 56021 | Noted 04/02/83 | |||||||
53020 | 54021 | Noted 24/04/19844 | |||||||
53020 | 54026 | Noted 08/12/1984 - BLS The Whitehall Mandarin Railtour 53020+54026 + 51832+51816 | |||||||
53020 | 54040 | Noted 12/05/87 - at Norwich2 | |||||||
53020 | 53046 | Noted 31/01/88 | |||||||
53020 | 53046 | Noted 02/06/88 - at Norwich2 | |||||||
53020 | 54026 | Noted 03/05/89 | |||||||
53020 | 53046 | Noted 10/06/89 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
The Branch Line Society Whitehall Mandarin railtour at Deepcar on 8 December 1984. Six Bells Junction lists the vehicles as 53020 + 54026 / 51832 + 51816. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 114 Derby Heavyweight DMU formed of 53020 + 54040 arrived at Grimsby Town on 7 March 1987, Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Derby Heavyweight Class 114 DMU (DMBS 53020 + DTSL 54040) sits in Barton-on-Humber station on 7 March 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Derby Class 114 DMU DMBS twin in parcels use, 53020+53046, stabled at Cambridge on 2-5-88, 55933 behind. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.
Passing through Northampton Station on the centre road is a parcels working formed of a 2-car Class 114 Derby Heavyweight (53020 and 54026). May 3rd, 1989. AndrewHA.
Class 114 parcels vehicle E53020 seen in Mayer Parry's Snailwell yard for dismantling on April 14, 1990. Nicholas Youngman.
E53046 + E53020 + 93096 with Peterborough to Cambridge parcels at Ely, 31.01.88. Nicholas Youngman.
A Class 114 2-car dmu (53046 + 50020) arrives at Northampton on 10 January 1989. This was, at this time, working for the parcels sector, and that sector's logo can be seen on the side of the leading vehicle. Lewis Bevan.