Vehicle 50415
Class 109
Builder: Wickham
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30288
Diagram: 606
Allocations
| 08/08/57 | New to | 30A (Stratford) | |
| Nov-58 | Transferred to | 31A (Cambridge) | |
| 03/09/61 | Withdrawn from | 31A (Cambridge) | - Sold back to Wickhams |
Notes
28-30 Jun-57 - E50415 / incomplete Wickham trailer / W79083 / W79471 exhibited at the Modern Railway Travel exhibition at Battersea Wharf.
Disposal
Sep-61 - Sold back to Wickham who then sold it to the Trinidad Government Railway
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50415 | 56170 | As delivered to 30A - 9th August 1957 | |||||||
| 50415 | 56170 | Noted 1st September 1957 | |||||||
| 50415 | 56170 | Noted 1st September 1957 | |||||||
| 50415 | 56171 | Noted 22nd March 1958 |
Images:
June 1957
A brand new E50415 outside the works at Wickhams in Ware in June 1957. It is displaying the manufacturer's name on the destination blind. Wickham.
circa June 1957
A Wickham image (negative W/262) showing the interior of DMBS E50415 in the yard at their works, circa June 1957. Wickham.
circa June 1957
A Wickham image (negative W/274) showing DMBS E50415 circa June 1957. This was a matted version of another print that was widely distributed of the vehicle outside the company works. Wickham.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 26th November 1959
A Wickham DMU with E56170 and presumably E50415 in Cambridge station on 26 November 1959. The two vehicles would be exported to Trinidad a couple of years later. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Date: 22nd February 1986
Class 109 Trinidad Wickham Port of Spain 22 February 1986. In the early '80s I worked as a Property Manager for British Airways and was sent to all sorts of exotic places. On a visit to Trinidad I came across these two Wickham half coach front ends welded back to back which had been used as a café in one of the outer suburbs of the capital Port of Spain. Along with some others dumped behind the old railway station downtown I reckon at that time there were enough parts surviving from all four coaches E50415, 50419 and E56170, 56174 exported in late 1961 but I am unable to say which ones were which and they almost certainly won't exist now. A letter from me along with this picture was published in Rail Magazine in issue 337, August 12-25 1998. Alistair Ness.