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
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Mar-87 | Withdrawn from | AY (Ayr) |
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
50473 - original number
53473 - from Jan-84 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
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
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.
Class 104 DMBS M50473 in Swindon Works circa early October 1980. Paul Redmond.
Class 104 DMBS in Swindon Works on 5 October 1980. A Swindon-built DMU is on the right. Brian Daniels.
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.
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.
104451 (53473 + 59264 + 51583) calls at Bellshill with the 08:24 Edinburgh-Glasgow Central service, circa summer 1986. Stuart Mackay Collection.
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.
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.
Class 104 SC53473 at Snailwell on 21 November 1987.The cab just seen on the left is that of 51233. Nicholas Youngman.
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.
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.
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.