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Vehicle 50021 / 53021

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 1973	Depot code change	LN
04/10/87	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
30/10/91	Withdrawn from	TS (Tyseley) PXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50021 - original number
53021 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

circa Dec-86 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 12/03/1982 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50021	56021		As delivered to 40A - 1st January 1957
	50020	56021	50021	Noted 1st June 1957
	50021	56012		Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City with 51285 + 56443¹
	50021	56021		Noted 25/11/67 - at Leeds City with 50040 + 56036¹
	50021	56011		Noted May 1968
	50021	56021		Noted 14/04/69 - in Doncaster with 50026 + 56011¹
	50021	56018		Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster²
	50021	56045		Noted 16/03/1974 - at Derby³
	50021	56045		Noted 16/03/1974 - at Derby³
	50021	56011		Noted 24/08/74 - at Cleethorpes⁴
	50021	56029		Noted 28/08/76 - on 1715 Nottingham-Derby
	50021	56012		Noted 21/02/77 - at Doncaster¹
	50021	56035		Noted 13/11/79
	50021	56011		Noted circa 04/1982⁵
	50021	56014		Noted 29/11/82 - at Norwich⁴
	53021	54025		Noted circa 01/1984⁵
	53021	54017		Noted 31/08/85 - at Norwich⁴
	53021	54017		Noted 31/10/1986⁵
T228	53021	54012		Noted circa 04/1988⁵
T228	53021	54012		Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T228	53021	54012		Noted 12th May 1989
T228	53021	54012		Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T021	53021	54012		New set number at TS - Nov-89 - ex-T228
T021	53021	54012		Listed at TS - 01/12/89
	53021	54012		Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot²
T021	53021	54012		Listed at TS - mid May-90
T021	53021	54012		Listed at TS - Mar-91
T021	53021	54012		Listed at TS - Jul-91
T021	53021	54012		Listed at TS - Aug-91

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

Images:

13th November 1979

E50021 / E56035 pass the home of Cravens at Darnall, Sheffield, on the 13th November 1979. Steve Davies Collection.

18th July 1981

A Class 114 DMU formed of E50021 + E56024 are seen at Darlington on 18 July 1981. John Carter.

Unknown date

Set number: T021

Class 114 DMU set T021 (presumably 53021 + 54012) seen in Derby station, date unknown. Mike Bunker.

circa early 1982

Class 114 DMBS E50021 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, probably circa early 1982 prior to refurbishment. Paul Redmond.

28th January 1984

On a chilly winters afternoon a Lincoln allocated 2-car class 114 Derby Heavyweight unit lead by vehicle E53021 calls at Rotherham Masborough station with the 16.05 Doncaster to Sheffield on 28 January 1984. Rotherham Masborough was built as a substantial four platform station serving two routes although by this date only those platforms on the former Midland mainline had a service, the far two here were on the route from Chesterfield via Barrow Hill and obsolete being on a freight only line. The station was poorly sited in the town so South Yorkshire PTE paid British Rail for Rotherham Central on the former GCR line to be reopened along with a short connecting line called the Holmes Chord. This spur allowed trains from the Sheffield line to reach the new station which opened on 11/5/87 and brought about the closure of Rotherham Masborough. Adrian Nicholls.

circa August 1984

Class 114 DMBS E53021 and Class 116 DMS M53875 stabled at Leicester. Undated, the slide process date is August 1984. Stuart Mackay Collection.

31st May 1986

A Class 114 (53021 + 54017) sits in one of the centre roads at Sheffield on 31 May 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

2nd April 1988

Set number: T228

Carrying Midlline branding on the side, Class 114 53021 (with 54012) is seen outside the factory at Tyseley on 02.04.1988. It was part of set T228, the Tyseley set numbers beginning with '2' indicated a 2 car unit. Andy Cole.

28th April 1990

Set number: T021

Wilmcote Bank, the 1/73 northbound climb out of Stratford-upon-Avon is the location for this shot of class 114 formed of set T021 (presumably 53021 + 54012) on 28 April 1990. It is on the 17.XX from Stratford-upon-Avon to Leamington Spa and one of the lineside gasholders near Stratford station station is clearly visible in the picture which I took from a convenient farm crossing. Peter Tandy.

2nd July 1990

Set number: T021

Set T021 led by 53021 arrives at Smethwick West with the 14:55 Stourbridge Junction - Birmingham New Street on the 2nd July 1990. Gazza Prescott.

13th April 1991

Set number: T021

53021 + 54012 at Derby on 13/4/91. Sparegang.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 14th September 1984

A Class 114 DMU formed of E54017 + E53021 approaching Ancaster with a Skegness service on 14.09.84. Phil Bevan.

Date: 2nd April 1988

Set number: T228

Class 114 54012, set number T228 (with 53021), is seen stabled outside the factory at Tyseley on 02.04.1988. It had been given a spruce up including a red buffer beam. On the right is Class 118 centre car 59481. Andy Cole.

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