Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: AEC 150 hp / Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30261
Diagram: 523
16/07/57 | New to | 54A (Sunderland) | |
3w/e 30/08/58 | Transferred to | South Gosforth | |
Feb-64 | Depot code change | 52J | |
May-73 | Depot code change | GF | |
w/e 22/08/76 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
18/01/87 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
31/03/88 | Withdrawn from | HT (Heaton) |
50227 - original number
53227 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
50227 | 56079 | As delivered to 54A - 16th July 1957 | |||||||
50227 | 56218 | Noted 25/08/1973 - at Carlisle1 | |||||||
50227 | 56218 | Noted 28/08/74 - at Carlisle2 | |||||||
50227 | 56210 | Noted 07/01/75 - on South Gosforth depot2 | |||||||
50227 | 56073 | Transfer to NL - w/e 22/08/76 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted circa 01/19773 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted 12/08/77 - on Morecambe - Leeds service with E56197 + E50619 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted 11/08/80 - at Morecambe | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted 16/01/19823 | |||||||
50227 | 56070 | Noted circa 10/19823 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds3 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted 12/06/83 - at Skipton | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted circa 10/19833 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Noted 16/05/19843 | |||||||
53227 | 54070 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53227 | 53263 | Noted circa 09/19863 | |||||||
53227 | 53263 | Noted 14/10/19863 | |||||||
53227 | 53263 | Noted 24/10/19863 | |||||||
75 | 53227 | 54364 | Noted 31/08/87 - at Heworth | ||||||
53227 | 59123 | 53195 | Noted circa 11/19873 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
A Met-Camm publicity image (negative DZ169) showing the driver's compartment of DMBS E50227. The vehicle was new to Sunderland on 16 July 1959 and would always be a North Eastern vehicle, other allocations being South Gosforth, Neville Hill and Heaton. Withdrawn in March 1988 it would be cut at Vic Berry's the following year. Metropolitan Cammell.
E50227 + E56070 with Class 108 E56197 + E50619 at Morecambe on the 12th August 1977 on a Leeds working. Robert Frise.
E50227 + E56070 at Morecambe on a rainy 11th August 1980. Robert Frise.
E53227 at Vic Berrys, Leicester on 15-1-89. Kevin Dowd.
E53227 is seen on top of the stack at Vic Berry's on February 18, 1989. Nicholas Youngman.
54070 + 53227 at Skipton on June 12, 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.
E54364 + E53227 at Heworth on August 31, 1987. John Carter.
At Vic Berry's on the 18th February 1989 are E53227 (top), SC59689 (middle) and SC51802 (bottom). Nicholas Youngman.