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Vehicle 50275 / 53275 / 78711


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

21/12/57 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
w/e 30/04/67 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
21/09/89 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50275 - original number
53275 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78711 - from circa Jun-84 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

Jan-75 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 25/08/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50285 59105 50275 As delivered to 56G - 21st December 1957
51543 59570 50275 Noted 04/09/67 - at Leeds City1
51550 59569 50275 Noted 20/07/68 - in Leeds City1
L181 50288 59232 50275 Noted circa 19712
50288 59232 50275 Noted 28/08/19723
50288 59232 50275 Noted 01/09/72 - in Leeds City1
50288 59232 50275 Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster4
50288 59232 50275 Noted 13/06/73 - at Cambridge4
50288 59232 50275 Noted 16/03/1974 - at York3
50288 59232 50275 Noted 24/08/74 - at Peterborough4
50287 59105 50275 Noted 30/01/76 - at Cambridge4
50286 59108 50275 Noted 27/02/76 - at Cambridge4
50275 59108 50286 Noted 06/03/76 - at Hull1
50275 59108 50286 Noted 22/03/76 - at Brough1
50288 59232 50275 Noted 10/04/76 - at Leeds1
50288 59232 50275 Noted 17/07/76 - at Brough1
50288 59232 50275 Noted 10/09/76 - in Reddish North station4
50288 59232 50275 Noted Sep-76 - at Doncaster1
50280 59232 50275 Noted 22/08/78 - on 13:50 York - Leeds5
50280 59101 50275 Noted circa 04/19822
50280 50275 Noted circa 10/19822
50280 50275 Noted 26/01/83
78961 78711 Noted 24/04/19842
78961 78711 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78961 78711 Noted circa 01/19862
78961 78711 Noted 19th August 1986
78961 78711 Noted circa 09/19862
78961 78711 Noted 25/10/19862
78961 78711 Noted 18/01/87 - on 17:00 Hull - Leeds6
78961 78711 Noted 11/04/1987 - at Stratford Depot, had possibly been in Stratford Works7
78960 78711 Listed at NL - 22/11/87
203 78961 78711 Formation change - NL - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 78711 (ex-202) replaced 78722 (to 202)
78961 78711 Noted 03/04/88 - on 07:00 Lincoln-Sheffield
78961 78711 Listed at NL - early Apr-88
78961 78711 Noted 24/06/88 - on 22:22 Lincoln-Sheffield
78961 78711 Noted 05/07/88 - on 16:12 Lincoln-Sheffield
78961 78711 Noted 08/07/88 - on 22:22 Lincoln-Sheffield
78961 78711 Noted 14/07/88 - on 10:25 Retford-Sheffield
78961 78711 Noted 24/10/888
203 78961 78711 Listed at NL - Feb-89
NL207 78969 78711 Listed at NL - 05/09/89

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Phil Shatford
6: Martin Baumann
7: Robert Chilton
8: Graeme Phillips

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Thorne Junction

25th September 1987

Class 111 vehicles 78711 and 78960 with the 14:45 Sheffield - Cleethorpes at Thorne Junction on 25 September 1987. Dave Warby Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Sheffield

21st April 1988

Metro-Cammell Class 111 DHCL E78711 and DHBS E78961 at Sheffield with a 110 behind. Dave Warby.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 26th January 1983

On a very dark January 26th 1983, Metro-Cammell power twin E50280 + E50275 loads up at March whilst working the 10.38 Doncaster - Cambridge. It was unusual to see a power twin set in East Anglia and this one was based at Leeds Neville Hill depot. Two months earlier these services had been diverted via Peterborough following closure of the joint line from March to Spalding. Gerard Fletcher.