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Vehicle 50473 / 53473

Class 104

Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30293
Diagram: 556

Allocations

4w/e 22/02/58	New to	5B (Crewe South)
Apr-63	Transferred to	5D (Cockshute)
3w/e 31/10/64	Transferred to	9D (Newton Heath)
May-73	Depot code change	NH
Jan-84	Transferred to	AY (Ayr)	- cover for fire damaged vehicles
Feb-87	Stored U.	FY (Falkland Yard)
Mar-87	Withdrawn from	AY (Ayr)

Notes

19th January 1984 - Seen in blue livery with white stripe
5th March 1984 - Seen in blue livery with white stripe
12th February 1987 - Seen at Falkland Yard
1st January 1988 - At Falkland Yard

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50473 - original number
53473 - from Jan-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50473	59181	50525	As delivered to 5B - 4w/e 22/02/58
	50473	59181	50525	Transfer to 9D - 3w/e 31/10/64
	50473	59181	50525	Noted 13/04/71 - in Manchester Victoria¹
	50473	59181	50525	Noted 17/09/71 - at Manchester Victoria²
	50473	59181	50525	Noted 31/08/72 - in Manchester Victoria²
	50473	59181	50525	Noted 19/04/73 - on Newton Heath depot¹
	50473	59181	50525	Noted 08/04/1976 - at Manchester Victoria ³
	50473	59181	50525	Noted 10/04/76 - in Manchester Victoria²
	50473	59181	50525	Noted circa 08/1981⁴
	50473	50525		Noted circa 10/1982⁴
	53473	53525		Noted circa 06/1983⁴
	53473	53525		Noted circa 08/1983⁴
	53473	59789	53525	Noted 19th January 1984
	53473	59801	53245	Noted 7th February 1984
	53473	59801	53245	Noted 17th February 1984
104451	53473	59559	53525	Listed at AY - 17/06/84
104451	53473	59559	53525	Noted 27th June 1984
104451	53473	59559	53525	Listed at AY - 25/03/85
104451	53473	59559	53525	Listed at Ayr - Summer 1986
	53473	59264	53705	Noted 7th July 1986
104451	53473	59264	51583	Noted 14th July 1986
104451	53473	59264	51583	Listed at Ayr - August 1986
104451	53473	59264	51583	Noted 4th August 1986
	53473	59264	51583	Noted 8th August 1986
	53473	59264	51584	Noted 11/10/1986 - at Ayr Depot⁴
	53473	59264	51584	Noted 16th October 1986
104451	53473	59559	53505	Formation change - circa Nov-86 - 53505 replaces 53525

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

Images:

15th September 1969

Set number: NH446

Class 104 NH Set 446, with 50473 trailing, heads away from the station stop at Leyland on the Up Fast Line and will be taking the Manchester line at Euxton Junction, viewed from another school train on the Up Slow calling at the intermediate stations to Wigan North Western prior to their closure later that year. Anthony Williams.

Unknown date

Class 104 DMBS M50473 in Swindon Works circa early October 1980. Paul Redmond.

5th October 1980

Class 104 DMBS in Swindon Works on 5 October 1980. A Swindon-built DMU is on the right. Brian Daniels.

30th September 1984

Set number: 104451

53473 leads 104 451 into Falkirk Grahamston station with a Dunblane service on the 30th September 1984. The rear car is 53525, the centre car is probably 59559. Hamish Stevenson.

Class 104 DMU at Ardrossan Harbour Winton Pier

4th November 1985

Set number: 104451

This class 104/107 3-car hybrid DMU set is seen in at Ardrossan Harbour Winton Pier Station prior to departure with the morning boat train to Glasgow on November 4, 1985. The station only had a sporadic service through the day connecting with ferry sailings to and from the Isle of Arran although the sign on the footbridge reads to the Belfast ferry this route had finished in the 1970's. This 3-car train would form service 1T82 09.35 to Glasgow Central. Adrian Nicholls.

circa summer 1986

Set number: 104451

104451 (53473 + 59264 + 51583) calls at Bellshill with the 08:24 Edinburgh-Glasgow Central service, circa summer 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.

27th September 1986

Set number: 104451

A class 104 / 120 hyrid (presumably 53473 + 59264 + 51583) departs Newton on Ayr with the 15.15 Ayr - Glasgow Central on 27-09-1986, the last day of diesel services. Stored 107s can be seen in the yard ahead. Gordon Thomson.

19th November 1986

Set number: 104451

Set 104451 only contains one Class 104 vehicles when seen at Ardrossan Harbour with the 15:18 Ardrossan Harbour - Glasgow service on November 19, 1986. DMBS SC53473 is working with two Class 120 vehicles, presumably 59264 and 51583. Hamish Stevenson.

21st November 1987

Set number: 104451

Class 104 SC53473 at Snailwell on 21 November 1987.The cab just seen on the left is that of 51233. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 29th August 1983

Class 104 BRCW 2-car DMU 53525+53473 with white body stripe waits to depart Blackpool North for Manchester Victoria 29-8-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Date: January 1984

Ayr Variety. Platform 11 at Glasgow Central High Level with motley six car DMU departing for the Ayrshire coast. An old note book suggests the leading BRCW Triple is M53473 DMBSL (White Stripe) + Sc59789 (107 TSL) + M53525 DMCL (White Stripe and yellow First Class cantrail stripe) as seen at Central on 19/01/1984. The rear lash up is probably MC DMB E53207 + BRCW DMC M53510 + MC DMS E54088, previously seen at Ayr. Three manufacturers / vehicle types, all blue, blue with white stripe, blue - grey ... and 'first class'. Variety, indeed! A rotten photograph, but then again, possibly a rotten journey for commuters in vehicles past their best. Friday 27 January 1984. alicia hartman.

Date: 30th September 1984

Set number: 104

53525 on the rear of a Dunblane service at Falkirk Grahamston on the 30th September 1984. The centre car is presumably 59559 and the other power car is 53473, labeled set 104 451. Hamish Stevenson.

Date: 3rd December 1986

Set number: 368

A DMU formed of 51584 + 59264 + 53473 - two 120s and a 104 - waits to leave Largs on 3 December 1986. This end has set number 368, but the other end is believed to show 104451. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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