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Vehicle 50288 / 53288 / 78959

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

23/01/58 New to 56G (Hammerton Street)
w/e 30/04/67 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23/10/89 Withdrawn from NL (Neville Hill) PZQZ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:

50288 - original number
53288 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
78959 - from circa Sep-83 (single engine conversion)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 21/01/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50288 59108 50278 As delivered to 56G - 23rd January 1958
50288 59108 50278 Noted 05/08/66 - at Wakefield Kirkgate1
50288 59108 50278 Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
50288 59105 50278 Noted 20/07/68 - in Leeds City1
50288 59105 50278 Noted 27/07/68 - at Leeds City1
50288 59089 50278 Noted 29/08/70 - at York1
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
50288 59232 51558 Noted 28/02/76 - at York4
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
50288 59062 59524 50273 Noted 10/03/77 - on Cambridge depot4
50273 59524 59062 50288 Noted 26/04/80 - at York4
78959 78709 Noted 1984
78959 78709 Listed at NL - 01/01/85
78959 78713 Noted 20/10/19862
78959 78709 Listed at NL - 22/11/87
78959 78709 Listed at NL - early Apr-88
78959 78909 Noted 09/08/88 - on 20:29 Sheffield-Lincoln
78959 78709 Noted 12/08/88 - on 22:00 Lincoln-Sheffield
78959 78709 Noted 31/08/88 - on a late afternoon Nottingham to Barnsley service
78959 78709 Noted 04/09/88 - on 17:58 Sheffield-Lincoln
201 78959 78709 Listed at NL - Feb-89
NL201 78959 78709 Listed at NL - 05/09/89

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

Images:

Class 111 DMU at York

August 1977

A Met-Camm formation in the white / blue stripe livery in York station on August 1977. Closest is a 111 four-car. The slide had three numbers noted: E50288 which seems to be closest, 59094 and 50140 which are a 101 TBSL and DMCL, possibly the far set. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Class 111 DMU at Leeds

15th November 1986

47 594 departs from Leeds with a train for Liverpool Lime Street as E78959 arrives 15th November 1986. Keith Long.

Class 111 DMU at Leeds

1st September 1987

Class 111 78959 is seen having arrived at Leeds on 01.09.1987. This was converted from 53288. Andy Cole.

Class 111 DMU at Leeds

30th December 1987

Class 111 set 78959 + 78709 at Leeds on 30/12/87. Rex Holt.

Class 111 DMU at Gilberdyke

7th April 1988

A Metro-Cammell 2-car set with E78959 leading passes major rebuilding work at Gilberdyke on the evening of 7th April 1988. This was a 2-car set which originally had four engines, now reduced to two. The quadruple track from Gilberdyke Junction to Melton Lane had been reduced to two running lines and the stations along the line were being shaped to fit. At both here and Broomfleet new platforms were being built over the old relief lines. Syd Young.

Class 111 DMU at Leeds City station

22nd July 1988

78709/78959 departs Leeds City station on 22/7/88 forming the slightly-delayed 13.37 to Sheffield. In the background, 51450/51510 departs in parallel with it on the 13.40 to Scunthorpe. Leonard Rogers.

Class 111 DMU at Vic Berrys

11th May 1990

Class 111 E78959 at Vic Berry's on 11.05.90. Nicholas Youngman.

Class 111 DMU at Leicester

13th August 1990

78959 stripped and awaiting cutting at Vic Berry's on 13th August 1990. Ian Hazlehurst.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: circa January 1958

A scene that epitomises the early years of DMU travel in Yorkshire. A Rolls-Royce powered Metropolitan-Cammell 3-car unit with E50278 trailing stands in platform 1B at Huddersfield forming a service to Wakefield Kirkgate on a misty winter's day in the 'pre-whisker' era of the late-1950s, possibly shortly after delivery in January 1958 (to Hammerton Street). The other two vehicles are presumably 59108 + 50288. Gordon Edgar Collection.

DMU

Date: 1984

Class 111 cars E78709 E78959 (left) are awaiting departure with a local service to York, probably running via Selby. Its car numbers in the 78XXX series show that each has had one of its two Rolls-Royce engines removed, becoming DHS-DHBS. Meanwhile, illustrating the new order, an unidentified Class 141 railbus (right) awaiting departure to Leeds in pre-electrification days - this unit would have still been new at this date, and carries original white and green livery. The first production railbus class, their first few years were beset with mechanical problems, though their reliability improved upon refurbishment in the late 1980s. However, they were all withdrawn by 1997 after a relatively short career with BR, though most were exported for further use... three units have been preserved. Graeme Phillips Collection.

DMU

Date: 12th July 1987

Two withdrawn DTSLs - Class 101 54383 and Class 108 54193 - share a siding with a Class 111 (78959 + 78709) at Hull Botanic Gardens depot on 12 July 1987. Keith Miller.

DMU

Date: 26th November 1988

E78709 and E78959 waiting departure from Oxenholme with a train for Windermere 26th November 1988. Keith Long.

                                                                                                                                                                             


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