Vehicle 50274 / 78707
Class 111
Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30268
Diagram: 616
Allocations
| 19/12/57 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| 3w/e 02/03/63 | On loan to | 40A (Lincoln) | |
| 07/04/63 | Ex-loan back to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| w/e 30/04/67 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
| 25/01/87 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50274 - original number
78707 - from p/e 31/10/82 (single engine conversion)
Modifications
May-74 - AWS fitted
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 17/04/1980 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50284 | 59104 | 50274 | As delivered to 56G - 19th December 1957 | ||||||
| 50284 | 59105 | 50274 | Transfer to 40A - 3w/e 02/03/63 - on loan from NER | ||||||
| 50284 | 59105 | 50274 | Transfer to 56G - 07/04/63 - ex-loan ER | ||||||
| 50284 | 59104 | 50274 | Noted Jul-66 - at Brough1 | ||||||
| 50284 | 59104 | 50274 | Noted 19/08/66 - at Southport Chapel Street | ||||||
| 50289 | 59101 | 50274 | Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1 | ||||||
| L183 | 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted circa 19712 | |||||
| 50284 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 27/10/71 - in Manchester Victoria3 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 31/10/1972 - at Manchester Victoria4 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 25/11/73 - on 08:48 York - Doncaster and Cambridge | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 17/04/74 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 27/08/1974 - at York4 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 29/08/74 - at York3 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 03/01/75 - on Neville Hill depot3 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 26/10/75 - at Brough1 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 10/09/76 - in Reddish North station3 | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 24/09/76 - on 12:02 Morecambe - Leeds | ||||||
| 50287 | 59105 | 50274 | Noted 06/11/1976 - at York4 | ||||||
| 78957 | 78707 | Noted circa 11/19822 | |||||||
| 78957 | 78707 | Noted circa 03/19832 | |||||||
| 78957 | 78707 | Noted 12th September 1983 | |||||||
| 78957 | 78707 | Noted 07/07/1984 - Additonal part of Brian Isherwood's Eastgate Explorer Railtour | |||||||
| 78957 | 78707 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
| 78957 | 78707 | Noted circa 07/19852 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78707 | Noted 01/12/19862 | |||||||
| 78963 | 78707 | Noted 28th December 1986 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
Images:
6th June 1982
The view from E50274 at Swinden Quarry, near Grassington, the end of the BR owned track. This was the Yorkshire Dales Railway Museum Trust Dalesrailwayman tour on 6 June 1982. John Carter.
6th June 1982
Rylstone level crossing and station remains from E50274 on the Dalesrailwayman railtour on 6 June 1982. John Carter.
12th September 1983
Class 111 cars E78707 and E78957 are seen entering Pontefract Monkhill station with a service heading for Knottingley on 12/09/1983. These cars were previously numbered E50274 and E50287 respectively, prior to having one of their two Rolls-Royce engines removed. Graeme Phillips Collection.