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: 30465
Diagram: 543
21/02/59 | New | - stored at Warwick pending allocation | |
Apr-59 | Transferred to | 6K (Rhyl) | - stored pending allocation |
Jun-59 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
Oct-59 | Transferred to | 27F (Brunswick) | |
11/09/61 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | - presumed move on closure of Brunswick |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J | |
3w/e 02/07/66 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
4w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | LO | |
12/05/85 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
10/05/87 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) | |
3w/e 20/05/88 | Transferred to | LE (Swansea Landore) | |
15/05/88 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) | |
30/10/88 | Transferred to | LE (Swansea Landore) | |
15/03/92 | Transferred to | BR (Bristol Bath Road) PBRX | |
09/06/92 | Withdrawn from | CF (Cardiff Canton) RECF |
19/04/59 - The six 2-car sets stored at Warwick shed (50947-52) were noted passing through Coventry on 19/04/59 hauled by 43005 in the Nuneaton direction, heading for Stoke. They were to have travelled under their own power, but had flat batteries after months of storage.
50947 - original number
53947 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Sep-72 - AWS fitted
May-88 - Headlamp fitted
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
50947 | 56230 | As delivered to - February 1959 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Transfer to 27F - Oct-59 | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 10/08/68 - at Bangor1 | |||||||
LT322 | 50947 | 56230 | Listed at Longsight - circa Jul-70 | ||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 18/08/70 - in Manchester Oxford Road2 | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 19/09/71 - on Chester depot1 | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 18/04/73 - on Chester depot2 | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 19/04/73 - in Manchester Oxford Road2 | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 17/08/1974 - at Chester3 | |||||||
50947 | 56241 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Barrow2 | |||||||
50947 | 56230 | Noted 18/02/1979 - at Crewe Station4 | |||||||
LO303 | 50947 | 56230 | Noted circa 05/19825 | ||||||
LO303 | 50947 | 56230 | Noted 31/05/19825 | ||||||
53947 | 54230 | Noted circa 02/19845 | |||||||
53947 | 54230 | Listed at LO - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53947 | 54230 | Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986 | |||||||
B974 | 53947 | 54230 | Listed at BR - Jun-87 | ||||||
B974 | 53947 | 54230 | Listed at BR - Aug-87 | ||||||
B974 | 53947 | 54230 | Listed at BR - Oct-87 | ||||||
B974 | 53947 | 54230 | Listed at BR - 29/02/88 | ||||||
S959 | 53947 | 53633 | Listed at CH - May-88 | ||||||
CH940 | 53947 | 52048 | Noted August 1988 | ||||||
S959 | 53947 | Listed at LE - 15/05/89 | |||||||
S959 | 53947 | 53633 | Noted circa 07/19895 | ||||||
53947 | 53633 | Noted 20/12/89 - on 13:24 Crewe - Shrewsbury6 | |||||||
S959 | 53947 | 53633 | Noted 06/04/1991 - At Crewe7 | ||||||
S959 | 53947 | 53633 | Listed at LE - Jul-91 | ||||||
S959 | 53947 | 53633 | Listed at LE - Aug-91 | ||||||
S959 | 53947 | 53633 | Listed at LE - Dec-91 | ||||||
396 | 53633 | 53947 | Noted 26/05/92 - on 06.58 Paignton to Exmouth |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Graeme Phillips
7: Dave Warby
Two-car Class 108 DMU set B974 (presumably 53947 + 54230) seen in Exeter station in late 1987. Michael Mensing.
Class 108 Set CH940 (presumably 53947 + 52048) with 2J80 1134 Bidston - Wrexham Central approaching Shotton High Level (at 1158), Tuesday 30th August 1988. Colin Brooks.
Class 108 set S959 (53947) and CH375 (51938) in Shrewsbury station, June 1989. They show the two different cab styles the Class had. Stuart Mackay Collection.
Class 108 set S959 (presumably 53947 + 53633) at Tenby with the 15:05 Swansea - Pembroke Dock service on 05-07-1990. Gordon Thomson.
Class 108 DMU set S959 (53947 and presumably 53633) at Neath with the 17:05 (SX) Swansea-Port Talbot Parkway on 5 July 1990. Robert Thomas.
Seeing out its last days in the West Country and with Eastern Region 'E' prefixes on its car numbers, Class 108 two-car set number 396, formed of cars E53947 + E53633, were stabled between duties at Exeter St Davids on May 24th 1992. The leading car was originally a Driving Trailer Composite Lavatory car, but had been downgraded to an all second, but retaining the first class seating in the front saloon. The set was withdrawn from service just a few weeks after this image was recorded, in June 1992, and was subsequently scrapped by Gwent Demolition at Margam. Martyn Hilbert.
A Class 108 DMU with 54230 closest and 53947 had recessed onto the stub of the Hayfield branch to the otherwise disused tunnel at New Mills Central whilst an express passes, it now returns to the station to form the next local service to Manchester Piccadilly, 27-10-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Quite a bit of mail has come of S959 (presumably 53633 + 53947) at Llandeilo, taken circa late 1980s. Stephen Williams.
Class 108 DMU set B974 (54230 and presumably 53947) at Newport with the 09:20 Hereford-Cardiff Central service on 12 March 1988. Robert Thomas.
The buildings on The Strand (A379) form a backdrop to a Class 108 DMU formed of cars 53633 & 53947, departing from Starcross with the 06.58 Paignton to Exmouth service on May 26th 1992. Above the rear car is the 'Atomospheric Railway Inn', a reminder that this stretch of railway was part of Brunels atmospheric system that was in operation between 1847-1849. Martyn Hilbert.