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
w/e 28/03/59 | New to | 6K (Rhyl) | |
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 06/05/67 | 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) | |
09/10/91 | Withdrawn from | HT (Heaton) PHTX | |
14/11/91 | To departmental stock | ||
Feb-92 | Withdrawn | - route learner |
50957 - original number
53957 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
977751 - from Nov-91 (departmental stock)
Sandite / Route Learner From 14/11/91 to 2/92.
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
50957 | 56240 | As delivered to 6K - w/e 28/03/59 | |||||||
50957 | 56234 | Noted 25/08/1973 - at Carlisle1 | |||||||
50957 | 56238 | Noted 24/08/75 - on Carlisle Kingmoor depot2 | |||||||
50957 | 56246 | Noted 10/04/1976 - at Carlisle3 | |||||||
50957 | 56238 | Noted 24/04/1976 - at Barrow 3 | |||||||
50957 | 56238 | Noted 06/09/76 - in Carlisle Citadel2 | |||||||
50957 | 56236 | Listed at KD - circa Aug-80 | |||||||
50957 | 56236 | Noted 12/08/80 - at Seascale | |||||||
50957 | 56236 | Noted circa 03/19824 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Listed at KD - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53957 | 54227 | Noted 12/07/85 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted circa 02/19864 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Listed at Carlisle Kingmoor - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 25/05/87 - on 13:37 Millom-Lancaster | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Listed at KD - circa Jan-88 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 03/08/88 - on 15:17 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Listed at HT - Feb-89 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 04/02/89 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 18/02/89 - on 16:30 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 25/03/89 - on 15:58 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 25/03/89 - on 14:30 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 30/03/89 - on 17:45 Newcastle - Middlesbrough service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 15/04/89 - on 15:00 Hexham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 12/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54239 | Noted 15/05/89 - on 18:23 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54239 | Noted 17/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54239 | Noted 18/05/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54239 | Noted 13/06/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 07/08/89 - on 12:50 Carlisle - Whitehaven5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 07/08/89 - on 15:40 Carlisle - Whitehaven5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 07/08/89 - on 11:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 07/08/89 - on 14:08 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 16/08/89 - on 19:12 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 21/08/89 - on 14:15 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness between 53953 + 54262 and 54238 + 539565 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 30/08/89 - on 06:30 Newcastle - Seaham service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 02/09/89 - on 12:50 Carlisle - Whitehaven5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 02/09/89 - on 14:08 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 02/09/89 - on 09:02 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 09/09/89 - on 09:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 09/09/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 16/09/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 16/09/89 - on 09:02 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 23/09/89 - on 11:05 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 18/10/89 - on 17:00 Middlesbrough - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 28/10/89 - on 17:43 Carlisle - Newcastle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 11/11/89 - on 10:00 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 23/11/89 - on 07:26 Seaham - Newcastle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 25/11/89 - on 14:46 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 03/02/90 - on 10:15 Barrow-in-Furness - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 03/02/90 - on 14:15 Carlisle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 09/02/90 - at Millom5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 18/06/90 - on 09:56 Whitehaven - Carlisle5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 01/08/90 - on 21:10 Newcastle - Carlisle service5 | |||||||
53957 | 54236 | Noted 06/10/90 - on 09:10 Newcastle - Barrow-in-Furness5 | |||||||
HT57 | 53957 | 54263 | Listed at HT - Jul-91 | ||||||
HT57 | 53957 | 54263 | Listed at HT - Aug-91 | ||||||
53957 | 54263 | Noted 07/08/915 |
Formation Sources
1: Jeremy Goodyear
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips
A two-car Class 108 in Windermere station in June 1970. The DMBS appears to be M50957. Mel Smith.
A location less often visited by most modern traction photographers in the 1970s and ‘80s was Barrow-in-Furness. On Monday May 25 1987 53957 + 54236 arrive at the station (which was rebuilt after wartime bomb damage) with the 1337 Millom-Lancaster. Mel Holley.
Believed to be an empty coaching stock (ECS) move, cars E53957 E54236 are captured at Millom (Cumbria) on 9/2/90. These were part of the batch of Class 108s that had long been allocated to Kingmoor (KD) depot, Carlisle, but were transferred to Heaton (HT) depot, Newcastle, upon closure of the former in May 1988. They continued to operate Cumbria services until displaced by Class 153s in 1991. Graeme Phillips Collection.
A Class 108 set formed of 53957 and 54236 are seen departing (12 minutes late) from Seaham on the 11:03 Middlesbrough - Hexham, 13/6/90. This was one of the majority of Kingmoor (Carlisle - KD) depot's units that were transferred to Heaton (Newcastle - HT) depot in May 1988 when KD closed (the remainder went to Chester - CH), but still intended for use in Cumbria. Thereafter, these power-trailer sets appeared on certain generously timed Newcastle-Carlisle services, presumably as a means of getting to / from their new depot. They also made occasional appearances on other north-east local services, but their inferior power:weight ratio meant they usually struggled to keep time on Pacer schedules, as was probably the case on the service illustrated. Graeme Phillips.
A 2-car Class 108 DMU arrives at Sellafield on 26th June 1991. In the background 31312 can be seen in the siding with a nuclear flask wagon. Syd Young.
M56236 + M50957 pass along the Cumbrian Coast at Seascale, 12/8/80. Robert Frise.