Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30406
Diagram: 543
30/05/58 | New to | 53C (Hull Springhead) | |
2w/e 09/08/58 | Transferred to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
2w/e 30/04/60 | Transferred to | 55F (Manningham) | |
21/04/63 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
2w/e 25/09/76 | Transferred to | GF (South Gosforth) | |
w/e 23/04/78 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
13/05/84 | Transferred to | BG (Hull Botanic Gardens) | |
11/05/86 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | |
10/05/87 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
05/06/92 | Withdrawn from | BR (Bristol Bath Road) REBR |
50602 - original number
53602 - from Feb-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn
50602 | 56193 | As delivered to 53C - 30th May 1958 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Transfer to 56G - 2w/e 09/08/58 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Transfer to 55H - 21/04/63 - swap for 51204/56362 | |||||||
50602 | 56365 | Noted 21/08/65 - at Bridlington1 | |||||||
50602 | 56192 | Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds1 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Noted 24/08/74 - at Doncaster2 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Noted 27/08/1974 - at York3 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Noted 03/01/75 - on Neville Hill depot2 | |||||||
50602 | 56193 | Noted 14/02/76 - at Bury St Edmunds on the out and back from Cambridge2 | |||||||
50602 | 56423 | Noted 15/04/1978 - at Newcastle 3 | |||||||
50602 | 50634 | Noted circa 10/19824 | |||||||
53602 | 54197 | Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds4 | |||||||
53602 | 54197 | Noted circa 01/19864 | |||||||
53602 | 54197 | Noted 19th August 1986 | |||||||
53602 | 54197 | Noted 24/10/19864 | |||||||
53602 | 54197 | Noted 01/12/19864 | |||||||
53602 | 54197 | Noted 24/04/1987 - at Leeds5 | |||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | New set number at BR - May-87 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - Aug-87 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - Oct-87 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - 29/02/88 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - 15/05/89 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - Jul-91 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - Aug-91 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Noted circa 08/19914 | ||||||
B960 | 53602 | 54197 | Listed at BR - Dec-91 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Robert Chilton
Class 108 DMBS E53602 in Taunton station on 22 July 1987. Transferred from Neville Hill to Bristol Bath Road in May it has its new set number B960 but the E prefix on the vehicle number remains. Stuart Mackay Collection.
From Yorkshire to Westbury. A surprise visitor to Westbury in November 1987 was class 108 set B960 on a Weymouth to Bristol working. Formed of 53602 + 54197, these had been Yorkshire vehicles from new, but reallocated to Bristol just a few months earlier. Murray Liston.
Symmetrical Strangers, almost. On the left we can see a surprise visitor to Westbury in November 1987, class 108 twin set B960 on a Weymouth to Bristol working. Formed of 53602 + 54197, these had been Yorkshire vehicles from new, but reallocated to Bristol just a few months earlier. The BRCW class 118 DMU on the right had been a Devon / Cornwall unit from new, but was reallocated to Cardiff in 1986 where it gained the Red Dragon branding. It was moved to Bristol a month before this photo was taken, the set number changing to B480 when it was seen at Westbury on a Bristol to Weymouth service, the numbers were W51327 + W59470 + W51312. Murray Liston.
53602 + 54197 (set B960) heads out of St Andrew's Road station with the 07:13 Bristol TM - Severn Beach service on July 1st, 1988. Hamish Stevenson.
Class 108 DMU set B960 (54197 and presumably 53602) brings an evening Swindon to Warminster train into Westbury on 15 August 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 108 formed of 54197 + 53602 between Newport and Cardiff on 8 April 1988. Robert Chilton.
Class 108 set B960 (presumably 54197 + 53602) is seen at Sparkford in 1989. Michael Mensing.
Class 108 set B960 (54197 and presumably 53602) at Newport with an up passenger service on 27 April 1991. Robert Thomas.