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Vehicle 50020 / 53020


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

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 1973Depot code changeLN
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02/05/90 Withdrawn from CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50020 - original number
53020 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Oct-87 - Converted for parcels use

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 26/01/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

50020 was involved in the following incident:


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.


Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


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

Images:

Class 114 DMU at Deepcar

8th December 1984

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.

Class 114 DMU at Grimsby Town

7th March 1987

A Class 114 Derby Heavyweight DMU formed of 53020 + 54040 arrived at Grimsby Town on 7 March 1987, Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 114 DMU at Barton-on-Humber

7th March 1987

A Derby Heavyweight Class 114 DMU (DMBS 53020 + DTSL 54040) sits in Barton-on-Humber station on 7 March 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 114 DMU at Cambridge

2nd May 1988

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.

Class 114 DMU at Northampton

3rd May 1989

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 DMU at Snailwell

14th April 1990

Class 114 parcels vehicle E53020 seen in Mayer Parry's Snailwell yard for dismantling on April 14, 1990. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 31st January 1988

E53046 + E53020 + 93096 with Peterborough to Cambridge parcels at Ely, 31.01.88. Nicholas Youngman.

DMU

Date: 10th January 1989

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.