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Vehicle 50282 / 53282 / 78960

Class 111

BR Diagram 524

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: 30338
Diagram: 524

Allocations

29/11/57 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
2w/e 30/04/60 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
18/05/69 Transferred to 30A (Stratford)
4w/e 31/01/71 Transferred to 55H (Neville Hill)
May-73Depot code changeNL
p/e 07/10/89 Sector Change to NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ
23/10/89 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50282 - original number
53282 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78960 - from circa Sep-83 (single engine conversion)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 22/12/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50282 59102 50272 As delivered to 56G - 29th November 1957
50282 59102 50272 Transfer to 55H - 2w/e 30/04/60
50282 59306 50272 Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City1
50282 59102 50272 Transfer to 30A - 18/05/69
50282 59101 50270 Noted 09/08/69
50282 59101 50270 Noted 28/08/69 - at Stratford1
50282 59100 50270 Noted 24/12/69 - at Southminster
L192 50282 59101 50272 Noted circa 19712
50282 59102 50271 Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 31/01/71
50282 59101 50272 Noted 02/10/1971 - at Leeds3
50282 59101 50272 Noted 31/08/72 - in Manchester Victoria1
50282 59101 50272 Noted 29/10/75 - at York1
50282 59101 50272 Noted 29/11/1975 - at York 4
50282 59188 50272 Noted 23/11/76 - at York1
50282 59101 50272 Noted 27/01/77 - on Cambridge depot5
50282 50272 Noted circa 10/19822
50282 50272 Noted circa 02/19832
78960 78710 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78960 78710 Noted circa 07/19852
78960 78710 Noted 25/10/19862
78960 78710 Noted 31/10/19862
78960 78723 Noted 24/04/1987 - at Sheffield6
78960 78711 Listed at NL - 22/11/87
202 78960 78722 Formation change - NL - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 78722 (ex-203) replaced 78711 (to 203)
78960 78722 Listed at NL - early Apr-88
78960 78722 Noted 18/09/88 - on 21:34 Sheffield-Retford
78960 78722 Noted 25/10/88 - on 10:45 Sunderland - Newcastle service7
202 78960 78713 Listed at NL - Feb-89
78960 78717 Noted 30/08/89 - on 16:07 Leeds - Castleford7
NL202 78960 78717 Listed at NL - 05/09/89

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Gerald Brown
6: Robert Chilton
7: Graeme Phillips

Images:

Class 111 DMU at Selby

Unknown date

A Rolls-Royce powered Class 111 comes of the swing bridge at Selby led by 50282. Date unknown. Walter Burt.

Class 111 DMU at Sheffield

1st February 1982

Class 111 DMBS E50282 stabled in one of the centre roads at Sheffield on 1 February 1982. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Earles

21st June 1986

A Class 111 DMU (78960 + 78710) on 2M43, the 13:40 Sheffield - Manchester Piccadilly stopper, at Earles on 21 June 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Snailwell

10th July 1990

Met-Camm Class 111 E78960 at Snailwell on 10th July 1990. It was converted to a single engine power car in Autumn 1983 and withdrawn from Neville Hill in October 1989. Nicholas Youngman.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 23rd December 1985

Single engine conversion E78710 (with E78960) at Wakefield Westgate, 23/12/85. Malcolm Clements.

DMU

Date: 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.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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