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Vehicle 50279 / 78706

Class 111

BR Diagram 616

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

30/01/58 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
30/04/67 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
27/07/86 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50279 - original number
78706 - from Jul-82 (single engine conversion)

Modifications

Jul-82 - Single engine conversion

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 30/11/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50289 59109 50279 As delivered to 56G - 30th January 1958
50264 59082 50279 Noted 07/10/67 - at Leeds City1
50289 59048 50279 Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 04/06/71 - at Huddersfield1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 18/09/1971 - at Huddersfield2
50235 59086 59097 50279 Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 03/05/74 - at Cambridge3
50279 59108 Noted 29/08/74 - at York, third vehicle unrecorded3
50280 59108 50279 Noted 01/09/74 - at Leeds3
50286 59108 50279 Noted 09/09/1975 - at Doncaster 4
50286 59108 50279 Noted 09/01/76 - at Cambridge3
50281 59102 50279 Noted 18/03/76 - at Cambridge3
50286 59108 50279 Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 05/01/77 - at Leeds1
50286 59108 50279 Noted 31/01/81 - at Doncaster
50286 59101 50279 Noted 16/07/81 - at Goole
78956 78706 Noted circa 10/19825
78956 78706 Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds5
78956 78706 Noted 20/08/83
78956 78706 Noted 07/01/19845
78956 78706 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78956 78706 Noted circa 07/19855

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

Images:

Class 111 DMU at York

circa 1976

Class 111 DMCL E50279 is at the front of a Metro-Cammell formation seen at York circa 1976. George Woods.

Class 111 DMU at Cambridge

9th August 1979

DMUs at Cambridge on 9 August 1974. Hiding behind the shelter is a Class 105, beside it is the trial refurbished Class 101 with 51518 closest. Facing it is a Class 111 with E50279 being the DMCL. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Goole

16th July 1981

A Class 111 set formed of 50279 + 59101 + 50286 run into Goole on the 16th July 1981. Chris Lings.

Class 111 DMU at Doncaster

1982

Class 111 DMCL E50279 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, possibly mid-1982 when it would undergo conversion to a single engine vehicle. Paul Redmond.

Class 111 DMU at Doncaster

circa mid-1982

Class 111 DMCL E50279 outside Doncaster Works. Date unknown, possibly mid-1982 when it would undergo conversion to a single engine vehicle. Paul Redmond.

Class 111 DMU at Kirkham North Junction

7th July 1984

In the days before the Kirkham By-Pass crossed the line, a Class 111/110 six-car DMU formation was passing over Kirkham North Junction with a Saturday Blackpool North to Leeds service on July 7th 1984. The lead set is a Metro-Cammell Class 111 formed of cars 78706 and 78956, whilst behind is a BRCW Calder Valley Class 110 that had been strengthened to four-cars with the insertion of an additional centre trailer coach. Martyn Hilbert.

Class 111 DMU at Leeds Marsh Lane

24th July 1984

Metropolitan Cammell Class 111 numbers E78956 and E78706 passing the abandoned platforms of the closed Marsh Lane station running ECS from Leeds to Neville Hill. Marsh Lane station was the original terminus of the Leeds and Selby Railway and opened on 22nd September 1834, when the line was taken over by the York and North Midland Railway in 1840 the station closed as trains were diverted into Hunslet Lane station, it re-opened in 1850 when a local passenger service to Milford Junction was started, in 1869 the station was re-sited to this position with the line extended over the viaduct into the current Leeds station in 1888, the station closed on 15th September 1958. Keith Long.

Class 111 DMU at Selby

27th March 1985

E78706 at Selby the Swing Bridge and Mill in view. Date is the 27th of March 1985 and the vehicle was usually partnered with E78956. It looks like it is heading for Hull from the signalling. The KDH Archive.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 20th August 1983

Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camms E78956 + E78706 arrive into Castleford with a Leeds - Castleford service on August 20, 1983. John Carter.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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