Vehicle 50949 / 53949

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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: 30465
Diagram: 543

Allocations

28/02/59	New		- stored at Warwick pending allocation
Apr-59	Transferred to	6K (Rhyl)	- stored pending allocation
Jun-59	Transferred to	9E (Trafford Park)
4w/e 01/06/63	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
3w/e 31/10/65	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)
14/05/89	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill) PNLX
08/04/91	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill) PNLX

Notes

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.
10/05/87 - Published as moving NH-CF, move then cancelled.

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50949 - original number
53949 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Derby Works dated 03/11/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50949	56232							As delivered to - 28th February 1959 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation
	50949	56490							Noted 01/01/68 - at Manchester Exchange1
	50949	56109							Noted 22/08/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1
	50949	56109							Noted 22/12/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1
	50949	56232							Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1
	50949	56232							Noted 19/09/71 - on Chester depot1
	50949	56232							Noted 20/04/73 - in Manchester Oxford Road2
LT314	50949	56232							Noted 09/09/73 - on Chester depot2
	50949	56232							Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2
	50949	56232							Noted 27/11/1976 - at Chester3
LO304	50949	56232							Noted circa 08/19824
	50949	56232							Noted circa 01/19834
	53949	54232							Listed at LO - 01/01/85
	53949	54232							Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986
	53949	54232							Listed at NH - 10/05/87
N618	53949	54056							Listed at NH - May 1988
	53949	54056							Noted 18/06/1988 - Barrow connection from BR Carlisle-Portsmouth excursion
N618	53949	54056							Noted circa Jul-88
NL254	53949	54056							Listed at NL - 05/09/89
	53949	54056							Noted 02/10/89 - on 16:06 York - Sheffield direct via Pontefract5
	53949	54056							Noted 19/11/1989 - BLS Worth Valley Wanderer Railtour 51184-51808 + 53949-54056

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

Images:

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1st August 1990

Set number: N618

A Class 108 (53949) / 101 (presumably 54056) hybrid DMU formation is seen calling at the Retford low level station on 01/08/1990. The electrified flyover is the East Coast Main Line. Graeme Phillips Collection.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 1st April 1989

A two-car Class 101/108 hybrid DMU formed of cars 54056 & 53949 was arriving at Rufford with an Ormskirk to Preston service on the evening of April 1st 1989. The Tarleton Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was then a quiet little-used backwater. This location now has marinas either side of the canal, a footbridge, car parks and the railway is now obscured by trees. Martyn Hilbert.

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Date: 13th September 1989

Set number: N618

54056 is the Met-Camm in a Class 101/108 hybrid (presumably with 53949) at Sheffield, 13th September 1989. Malcolm Clements.