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
22/03/57 | New to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | LN | |
04/10/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
30/10/91 | Withdrawn from | TS (Tyseley) PTSX |
50044 - original number
53044 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell
50044 | 56044 | As delivered to 40A - 22nd March 1957 | |||||||
50044 | 56044 | Noted 26th Nov 1960 | |||||||
50044 | 56044 | Noted 27/07/671 | |||||||
50044 | 56044 | Noted May 1968 | |||||||
50044 | 56003 | Noted 02/05/70 - at Sheffield1 | |||||||
50044 | 56044 | Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland2 | |||||||
50044 | 56007 | Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster2 | |||||||
50044 | 56007 | Noted 17/08/1973 - at Derby3 | |||||||
50044 | 56028 | Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield1 | |||||||
50044 | 56007 | Noted 01/12/75 - at York with 50033/560101 | |||||||
50044 | 56001 | Noted 13/02/76 - at Brough1 | |||||||
50044 | 56001 | Noted 03/04/76 - at York2 | |||||||
50044 | 56036 | Noted 12/09/76 - at Doncaster1 | |||||||
50044 | 56024 | Noted 10/02/77 - at Cambridge2 | |||||||
50044 | 56024 | Noted 21/02/77 - at Lincoln1 | |||||||
50044 | 56029 | Noted 24/05/80 | |||||||
50044 | 56034 | Noted 09/10/81 | |||||||
50044 | 56034 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||||
53044 | 54014 | Noted circa 01/19864 | |||||||
53044 | 54043 | Noted 14/08/87 | |||||||
53044 | 54043 | Noted 29/08/19874 | |||||||
T234 | 53044 | 54043 | Noted circa 01/19884 | ||||||
T234 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988 | ||||||
T234 | 53044 | 54043 | Noted circa 12/19884 | ||||||
T234 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at TS - 01/09/89 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | New set number at TS - Nov-89 - ex-T234 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at TS - 01/12/89 | ||||||
53044 | 54043 | Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot5 | |||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at TS - mid May-90 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Noted circa 12/19904 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at TS - Mar-91 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Noted 20/03/91 - at Crewe6 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at TS - Jul-91 | ||||||
T024 | 53044 | 54043 | Listed at TS - Aug-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Jeremy Goodyear
6: Aaron Calder
A Derby Heavyweight DMU formed of E50044 + E56044 in Lincoln Central on 18 April 1970. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive. David Page Collection.
50044 at the head of 114 set, heading for Sheffield, seen at Grimsby on 13/3/78. Ian Francis.
Nottingham station on a wet and windy 2nd August 1978. This 2-car Class 114 dmu has just arrived with service from Skegness. I had arrived in Nottingham about 40 minutes earlier on the 09.35 Carlisle-Nottingham, hauled by 45 037, and was awaiting the 15.10 Nottingham-St Pancras (45140) to take me to Leicester. The Class 114 was formed 50044/56030. 50044 was new in March 1957, when it was allocated to Lincoln (40A). It stayed at Lincoln until October 1987, when it was transferred to Tyseley (TS). It was withdrawn from service at TS in October 1991 (during the Sprinter Revolution) and was scrapped by Mayer Newman at Snailwell. 56030 was new, also to 40A, in January 1957, and stated at LN until withdrawal in January 1986. 56030 (by then renumbered to 54030) was scrapped at Berry's yard in Leicester. Lewis Bevan.
50044 at New Holland Pier on 26/5/81. Chris Lings.
50044 is at the rear of this set departing from Grimsby Town, 26/5/81. Chris Lings.
E53044 is at the front of a Class 114 set arriving into Cambridge station on April 7th, 1984. Michael Mensing.
E53044 + E54042 at Malton with a York - Scarborough service on 20 April 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
E53044 & E54043 at Derby on 12/05/87. Steve Jones.
Class 114 E53044 + E54043 pass through Queen Adelaide with the 16.50 Peterborough to Cambridge, 14.08.87. Nicholas Youngman.
Class 114 vehicles 53044 + 54043 were reallocated from Lincoln to Tyseley (their first move since new) at the start of October 1987 becoming set T234. Here the set is seen a few weeks later on 17 November in Bristol Temple Meads and was noted as ready to work the 12:53 to Severn Beach. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 114 set in Derby station, date unknown. 53044 is on this end, labeled set T234, the other end is labeled T224 (presumably 54008). Malcolm Clements.
In Shrewsbury station on the 30th March 1989 is 53044, part of set T234. Chester is on the destination blind. Gazza Prescott.
By April 1990 class 114 units had largely taken over local trains between Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa. This is T024 (53044 + 54043) in platform 2 at Stratford on 30 April with the 17.12 departure with a couple of tourists appearing to be asking if this was their service. The people on the platform were waiting for the 17.30 train to Birmingham which was about to arrive in platform 1. Peter Tandy.
A rather indistinct shot from a passing train of cl.114 nos.53044/54043 at Leamington on 5/7/90. Despite what the platform clock says, the time was ca. 15.50 and the unit may have formed an incoming service from either Hatton or Stratford-upon-Avon. This was during the period of four years or so at the end of the class's life when the remaining units were based at Tyseley (apart from a few which had gone into parcels service). They moved here in 1987 after a thirty-year stint based at Lincoln, their only home up to that point. Leonard Rogers.
Class 114 T024 (53044 + 54043) was in the soon to be lifted Cold Store Siding alongside platform 3 at Stratford-upon-Avon on 24 November 1990. It was unusual to see a DMU here on a Sunday at that date as there was no Sunday service to the station then, so I assume that it had failed and was waiting either for a fitter to arrive the next day or to be dragged back to Tyseley. Class 47 47827 was just arriving to take out the VSOE dining train with 47807 which had come into the station earlier. Peter Tandy.
Class 114 DMBS 53044 at Snailwell on 11th November 1991. Nicholas Youngman.
Class 114 DMBS 53044 at Snailwell on the 11th November 1991. Nicholas Youngman.
E56034 + E50044 call at Retford Low Level on 09/10/1981 with the 09:52 Cleethorpes - Sheffield service. Graeme Phillips Collection.
Class 114 DMU set T234 (presumably 54043 + 53044) departing St Andrews Road for Severn Beach on 17 November 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
This is presumed to be 54008, labeled T224, the other end is DMBS 53044 (T234). Seen in Derby station, date unknown. Malcolm Clements.
Class 114 DMU set formation no. T234 (presumably 54043 + 53044) is seen calling at Spondon, Derbyshire, with a Birmingham-Lincoln service, on Tuesday 20/06/1989. Graeme Phillips Collection.