Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30508
Diagram: 615
29/01/60 | New to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
May-60 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
19/07/87 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
51546 - original number
78966 - from p/e 26/12/82 (single engine conversion)
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
51546 | 51556 | As delivered to 56G - 29th January 1960 | |||||||
51546 | 59107 | 51554 | Noted 12/07/69 - at Brough1 | ||||||
51546 | 59572 | 51556 | Noted 15/08/1970 - at York2 | ||||||
51546 | 59048 | 59578 | 51845 | 24/10/70 - on BLS Ouse & Aire railtour1 | |||||
L178 | 51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted circa 19713 | |||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 31/08/72 - in Leeds City1 | ||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 01/09/72 - in Leeds City1 | ||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 24/04/1973 - at York2 | ||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 01/09/74 - at Lancaster4 | ||||||
51546 | 59533 | 51556 | Noted 09/02/76 - at Brough1 | ||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted Jun-76 - in Manchester Piccadilly1 | ||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 04/09/76 - at Sheffield1 | ||||||
51546 | Noted 20/01/77 - on Cambridge depot, loose vehicle4 | ||||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 04/06/77 - on 0635 Hull-Manchester Piccadilly | ||||||
51546 | 59529 | 51554 | Noted 30/07/78 - at Lancaster | ||||||
51546 | 51554 | Noted circa 10/19823 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds3 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 11/10/83 - at Leeds | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 1984 - at Wigan Wallgate | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 21/02/85 - on 16:44 Sheffield to Leeds | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted circa 07/19853 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 17/07/86 - at York4 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 19th August 1986 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 31/10/19863 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 09/11/19863 | |||||||
78966 | 78716 | Noted 8th January 1987 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Peter Wallwork
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Gerald Brown
51546 + 59048 + 59578 + 51845 at Rowntrees Halt with the BLS Ouse & Aire tour on October 24, 1970. Leonard Rogers.
E51546 leads a 3-car Class 111 set into York station on the 2nd October 1979. On the back is tacked the Gloucester Stourton Saloon 975664 + 975637. Malcolm Clements.
Class 111 Metro Cammell 2-car DMU 78966 + 78716 at Leeds, 11-10-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Complete with its West Yorkshire PTE Metrotrain branding, A Metropolitan-Cammell built Class 111 formed of cars E78966 & E78716, was stood at Burscough Bridge with a Southport to Manchester Victoria service on April 26th 1986. Martyn Hilbert.
E51559 + E59107 + E51549 + E51554 + E59529 + E51546 seen at Lancaster on the 30th July 1978. Robert Frise.
A three-car Metro-Cammell Class 111 diesel set coupled to a Class 108 twin are seen at Kelloe Bank Foot in County Durham on 27 September 1980 during the RCTS "North Eastern No 5" rail tour. For the three-car the centre car is noted on Six Bells Junction as Class 101 59529, the power cars are likely 51554 + 51546. Jeremy Chapter.
Supposedly allocated to Yorkshire services, cars E78716 E78966 are illustrated away from their usual sphere of operation at Wigan Wallgate, with this service from Wigan Wallgate to Southport in 1984. Graeme Phillips Collection.