Vehicle 50613 / 53613

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Class 108

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

Allocations

07/08/58	New to	56G (Hammerton Street)
2w/e 30/04/60	Transferred to	55F (Manningham)
05/03/67	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)	- Manningham closed
May-73	Depot code change	NL
13/05/84	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
28/09/86	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
10/05/87	Transferred to	BR (Bristol Bath Road)
27/04/89	Withdrawn from	BR (Bristol Bath Road) PBRX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50613 - original number
53613 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 23/05/1975 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by CF Booth, Rotherham

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50613	56204							As delivered to 56G - 7th August 1958
	50613	56204							Transfer to 55F - 2w/e 30/04/60
	50613	56204							Noted 05/01/66 - in Leeds City station1
	50613	56204							Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 25/03/67
	50613	56204							Noted 19/08/70 - at Keighley1
	50613	56209							Noted 18/09/1971 - at Leeds2
	50613	56209							Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1
	50613	56209							Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster3
	50613	56209							Noted 05/08/1974 - at York4
	50613	56209							Noted 07/01/75 - on South Gosforth depot3
	50613	56209							Noted 25/10/75 - at Leeds1
	50613	56209							Noted 06/12/75 - at Brough1
	50613	56209							Noted 22/05/76 - at Leeds1
	50613	56209							Noted circa 01/19775
	50613	59248	59386	50646					Noted 14/04/78 - on 06:17 Doncaster-Hull1
	50613	59248	59386	50646					Noted 15/04/1978 - at York 4
	50613	56191							Noted 02/08/79
	50613	56191							Noted 16/01/19825
	50613	56191							Noted circa 10/19825
	50613	56191							Noted circa 03/19835
	53613	54191							Noted 07/01/19845
	53613	54191							Noted 26/03/1984 - at Lancaster5
	53613	54191							Noted circa 10/19865
	53613	54191							Noted 21/03/87 - on 16:37 Selby - York6
B963	53613	54191							Listed at BR - Jun-87
B963	53613	54191							Listed at BR - Aug-87
B963	53613	54191							Listed at BR - Oct-87
B963	53613	54201							Noted 28/11/19875
B963	53613	54191							Listed at BR - 29/02/88

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann

Images:

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Unknown date

A hybrid DMU at Keighley. The Derby Lightweight (Class 108) DMBS 50613 is in blue livery, and still has an NE prefix. It is paired to a Met-Camm DTC, still in green. Circa late 1960s. Graham Clark.

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September 1970

A Class 108 DMU at Morecambe in September 1970. DMBS E50613 is nearest the camera, and being an Eastern Region vehicle it has probably worked in from Leeds and is pictured prior to returning there. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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7th May 1979

Lancaster Castle railway station with Class 108 DMBS 50613 closest, Monday 07 May 1979. Ian 10B.

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2nd August 1979

E50613 and E56191 entering Lancaster Castle on the 2nd August 1979. Robert Frise.

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circa 1982

Class 108 E50613 in Morecambe circa 1982, on the right is Cravens 50757. S Saunders.

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27th August 1983

A recently arrived Class 108 DMU in Ilkley station with the 14:19 from Leeds on 25 June 1983. Closest is DMBS E53613. Robert Thomas.

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Unknown date

Set number: B963

Class 108 DMBS 53613 at Doncaster Works. No date with this image, but the missing/smashed windows, open electrical boxes underneath, and the condition of the two locos either side, probably means it's after withdrawal in April 1989. It had spent almost all of it's 30 year working life as a North Eastern vehicle, only spending it's last 18 months at Bristol. Malcolm Clements.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: circa 1982

Cravens 50757 and Class 108 50613 in Morecambe station circa 1982. S Saunders.