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 | 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) | |
4w/e 05/04/69 | Transferred to | 12A (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | KM | |
Jan-75 | Depot code change | KD | |
15/05/88 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) | |
p/e 13/10/90 | Sector Change to | HT (Heaton) PXXZ | |
07/12/90 | Withdrawn from | HT (Heaton) PXXZ |
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.
50952 - original number
53952 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Oct-72 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
50952 | 56235 | As delivered to - 21/02/59 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation | |||||||
50952 | 56236 | Noted 31/08/71 - at Carlisle1 | |||||||
50952 | 56244 | Noted 25/08/1973 - at Carlisle2 | |||||||
50952 | 56236 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Barrow3 | |||||||
50952 | 59265 | Noted 03/04/76 - on 12.30 Lancaster – Carlisle with 50951 + 562424 | |||||||
50952 | 56244 | Noted 07/04/1976 - at Barrow 5 | |||||||
50952 | 56244 | Noted 12/03/1977 - at Carlisle 5 | |||||||
50952 | 56243 | Noted 1st August 1978 | |||||||
50952 | 56244 | Listed at KD - circa Aug-80 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Listed at KD - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted circa 10/19856 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 01/11/19866 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Listed at KD - circa Jan-88 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 10/09/887 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 08/10/88 - on 14:15 Sunderland - Gateshead MetroCentre service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 08/10/88 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 15/10/88 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 12/11/88 - on 14:30 Sunderland - Hexham service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 28/01/89 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Listed at HT - Feb-89 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 11/03/89 - on 15:04 Gateshead Metro Centre - Sunderland service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 11/03/89 - on 15:45 Sunderland - Newcastle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54244 | Noted 22/04/89 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 12/08/89 - on 16:27 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 21/08/89 - on 12:50 Carlisle - Whitehaven7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 02/11/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 11/11/89 - on 10:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 11/11/89 - on 12:45 Carlisle - Newcastle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 18/11/89 - on 14:35 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 25/11/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 09/12/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service7 | |||||||
53952 | 54241 | Noted 30/03/90 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle7 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Phil Shatford
5: Peter Wallwork
6: Eddie Knorn
7: Graeme Phillips
A 2 car class 108 DMU, led by DMBS M50952, approaches Grange over Sands on a Lancaster-Carlisle service, September 1979. John Crooks.
Two two-car Class 108 DMUs with M53952 leading arriving at Carnforth during 1983. Walter Burt.
A Class 108 DMU formed of 53952 + 54244 ready to work a Barrow service in Carlisle station on 10 July 1987. Keith Miller.
A Class 108 DMU formed of M56245 + M50952 stabled between Barrow duties at Lancaster on 26 October 1978. Stuart Mackay Collection.