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Vehicle 50027 / 53027

Class 114

BR Diagram 516

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

17/01/57 New to 40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 41A (Darnall)
4w/e 28/04/62 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
May 1973Depot code changeLN
16/11/86 Stored U. LN (Lincoln)
11/03/87 To Parcels Sector at LN (Lincoln)
21/06/87 Transferred to CA (Cambridge)
19/12/87 Transferred to TS (Tyseley)
27/11/88 Transferred to CA (Cambridge) RPXN
06/09/90 Withdrawn from CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50027 - original number
53027 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 01/06/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50027 56027 As delivered to 40A - 17th January 1957
50027 56027 Transfer to 40A - 4w/e 28/04/62
50027 56027 Noted Aug-66 - at Brough1
50027 56027 Noted 13/09/67 - at Hull1
50027 56027 Noted May 1968
50027 56027 Noted 12/08/1971 - at York2
50027 56027 Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 50019/56019 + 50038/560381
50027 56042 Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield1
50027 56016 Noted 21/02/77 - at Lincoln with 50046/560131
50027 56035 Noted 24/09/77 - at Grantham3
53027 54032 Noted circa 10/19834
53027 54032 Noted 07/09/85
53027 54032 Noted circa 01/19864
53027 54032 Noted circa 05/19864
53027 54041 Noted 02/09/87
53027 54041 Noted 08/11/87 - at Norwich, parcel set3
T022 53027 54041 Noted 21st February 1988
T022 53027 54041 Noted circa 04/19884
T022 53027 54041 Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
53027 54041 Noted 26/07/88 - on 16:30 Doncaster-Skegness
53027 54041 Noted 06/02/89 - parcels5
53027 54041 Noted 29/11/89 - at Norwich3
53027 53046 Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot2

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

Images:

Class 114 DMU at Derby

Unknown date

A Class 114 with E50027 on the rear heads out of Derby. Date unknown. Walter Burt.

Class 114 DMU at Buxworth

7th September 1985

Coasting down through Buxworth cutting with a Hope Valley, Sheffield-New Mills Central local service, is a Lincoln based Derby Heavyweight class 114 dmu, made up of cars E53027 & E54032. 7th September 1985. Andrew J Crowther.

Class 114 DMU at Ely

12th August 1987

Class 114 E53027 + E54041 and Class 101 54050 + 53231 leave Ely with the 10.13 Cambridge to Peterborough, 12.08.87. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 114 DMU at Tyseley

26th December 1987

Set number: T022

Class 114 53027 is seen at Tyseley carriage sidings on 26.12.1987, presumably with 54041. Carrying set number T022, the Tyseley set numbers beginning with '0' were at this time were for the Parcels units. It had been transferred here from Cambridge that month. Andy Cole.

Class 114 DMU at Snailwell

12th April 1991

Class 114 DMBS 53027 at Snailwell on 12th April 1991. It was not unusual for vehicles to be sent for disposal with doors and windows boarded up. It was normally done with sheets of wood, this one has steel sheets welded on to seal the vehicle, a sign that it had never been asbestos stripped. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 5th June 1985

A Class 114 DMU formed of 54032 + 53027 at Sheffield waiting to depart with the 15.25 (Sheffield) to Doncaster service on 5 June 1985. Rob Paterson.

DMU

Date: 21st August 1988

Set number: T022

Class 114 parcels set 54041 + 53027 heading towards Shrewsbury at Whitchurch Salop on 21-8-1988. Russ Burrows.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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