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: 30461
Diagram: 609
28/11/59 | New to | 6G (Llandudno Junction) | |
w/e 02/01/60 | Transferred to | 6D (Chester Northgate) | |
Jan-60 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | - Northgate closed |
06/05/73 | Depot code change | CH | |
19/01/86 | Transferred to | BX (Buxton) | |
22/03/87 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
25/10/87 | Transferred to | ED (Eastfield) | |
11/07/88 | Transferred to | HA (Haymarket) | |
01/10/89 | Transferred to | CH (Chester) PCHX | |
30/09/90 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) PTSX | |
11/12/92 | Withdrawn from | TS (Tyseley) RFXX |
circa May-86 - Headlamp fitted - remains at KD
Preserved - more details.
50929 | 51566 | As delivered to 6G - 28th November 1959 | |||||||
50929 | 51566 | Noted 22/06/74 - at Chester1 | |||||||
50929 | 59131 | 51566 | Noted 19/12/1977 - Chester2 | ||||||
50925 | 51566 | Noted circa 03/19812 | |||||||
50933 | 51566 | Noted circa 05/19822 | |||||||
53933 | 51566 | Noted 12/05/83 - on Chester depot | |||||||
53933 | 51566 | Noted circa 01/19852 | |||||||
53933 | 51566 | Noted circa 01/19862 | |||||||
53933 | 51566 | Transfer to BX - 19/01/86 - from CH | |||||||
53933 | 59183 | 51566 | Formation change - BX - circa Mar-86 | ||||||
53933 | 59183 | 51566 | Listed at Buxton - Summer 1986 | ||||||
53933 | 59183 | 51566 | Noted 18/02/19872 | ||||||
T902 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Noted circa 06/19872 | |||||
T902 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Listed at TS - Jul-87 | |||||
T902 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Noted 11/07/87 - at Norwich, headlights on both power cars1 | |||||
902 | 53953 | 59387 | 51566 | Noted 12/09/87 - at Norwich1 | |||||
53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Transfer to ED - 25/10/87 - from TS | ||||||
108383 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Listed at ED - Jan-88 | |||||
383 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Noted circa 05/19882 | |||||
108383 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Listed at HA - circa August 1988 | |||||
383 | 53933 | 59387 | 51566 | Noted 15th February 1989 | |||||
53933 | 51566 | Noted 24th July 1989 | |||||||
383 | 53933 | 51566 | Noted 04/08/89 - on 06:27 Edinburgh Circle via Kirkcaldy | ||||||
CH634 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at CH - 14/10/89 | ||||||
CH634 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at CH - mid May-90 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Noted circa 10/19902 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at TS - Jul-91 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at TS - Aug-91 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at TS - Dec-91 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at TS - 02/07/92 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at TS - 24/09/92 | ||||||
T072 | 53933 | 51566 | Listed at TS - November 1992 | ||||||
spare | 51566 | Listed at TS - 10/12/92 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Eddie Knorn
Class 108 DMCL M51566 on Chester depot, 3 June 1979. Brian Daniels.
Class 108 Derby 2-car DMU 51566 + 53933 in all over blue and with a Central Wales line headlight, Chester depot on 12-5-83. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
A misty morning at Cosford on 29 November 1986 made the use of black & white film a better bet than Kodachrome 64. The subject is class 108 DMU T072 (51566 + 53933) complete with headlight and a red dragon emblem on the cab front. The train is about to stop at Cosford station with a Wolverhampton to Chester service stopping at all stations at least as far at Shrewsbury. Peter Tandy.
Class 108 DMS 51566, set number T902, is seen at Tyseley on 29.03.1987. This had recently been transferred in from Buxton. Andy Cole.
A tatty 51566 in Haymarket station circa late 1988. Mike Bunker.
3-car Class 108 set 383 led by M51566 (presumably with 59387 and 53933) awaits departure from Waverley for Dunblane in April 1988. Alan Rintoul.
Having called at Shifnal station, CH634 (53933 + 51566) on a Birmingham New Street-Shrewsbury working, burbles away across the town’s viaduct on Friday 26/1/90. Mel Holley.
A Class 108 DMU on an Up service in the Conwy Valley at Cwmlanerch and seen from the B5106, March 1990. Probably set set CH634 (51566 + 53933). On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
Class 108 DMU set CH634 (cars M51566 and M53933) waits at Blaneau Ffestiniog in May, 1990. Glen Batten.
T072 (51566 presumably with 53933) proudly displaying it's Welsh Dragon while at Matlock in the heart of Derbyshire circa 1991. Roy Lambeth.
Tyseley's class 108 set T072 didn't work only in the Birmingham and Chester areas. On 14 April 1991 51566 + 53933 were approaching Nottingham station when I photographed them a short way to the east of Lenton Junctions. Peter Tandy.
The sunshine didn't last long at Cosford on 14 September 1991 and by the time that class 108 T072 (51566 + 53933) returned from Wolverhampton towards Chester the cloud and murk had returned allowing a shot from the north side of line thus giving a better view of the signals and other infrastructure. The wind sleeve in the background marks the site as being part of RAF Cosford, a training establishment and museum of many things aeronautical including an unfortunately static TSR2 experimental strike and reconnaissance aircraft, a victim of Governmental dogma. Peter Tandy.
Class 108 DMU set T072 (51566 and 53933) arrives into Long Eaton with the 14.20 Nottingham - Crewe service on 26 November 1991. Dave Warby.
Class 108 DMU set T072 (51566 and 53933) sits in Long Eaton station with the 14.20 Nottingham - Crewe service on 26 November 1991. Dave Warby.
51566 with 53933 as Tyseley's set T072 stands at a busy Derby station on 17/Jul/1992. The set number is somewhat cobbled together with numerals of differing colours and 51566 still retains it's Welsh Dragon and headlight from it's time on the Central Wales Line. This set is one of several class 108s which entered preservation as a complete set, initially in this case at Peak Rail. Robert Chilton.
A Chester-allocated Class 108 power twin, 53933 and presumably 51566, circa 1983, at Wrexham Central. Stuart Pearce.
In platform 3 at Stratford-upon-Avon sometime in 1987 a 3 car Class 108 numbered T902 (presumably 53933 + 59387 + 51566) is on the front of the Midline Bubble which is conveniently positioned on the platform's curve so that its unique colour scheme is visible. Peter Tandy.
Class 108 set 383 (M53933 + 59387 + M51566) captured in Haymarket depot on December 13, 1987. Hamish Stevenson.
Three-car Class 108 set departs from Edinburgh Waverley for Dunblane in April 1988 with M53933 on the rear (and presumably 59387 + 51566). Graeme Phillips Collection.
In pre-electrification days, 108383 (presumably 53933 + 51566) departs from Edinburgh Waverley with the 10.15 train to Bathgate on 01-07-1989. Gordon Thomson.
An unusual view of the west end of Waverley station, Edinburgh, on the morning of 5/7/89. No trains were moving this day - it was the day of one of the weekly strikes staged by the NUR that summer. Almost every platform is filled with stabled stock. From left to right there are : an HST in plat.19, 52053 coupled to 59248 and 52059 (108 380) in plat.18, a Mk.2 DVT (9709) in plat.17, 53260 coupled to 59042 and 51241 (101 315) in plat.16, nothing visible in plat.15, 150 244 in plat.14, 53933 (coupled to 51566) in plat.13, 53164(cl.101) coupled to 59800(cl.107) and 53733, forming 120 535, in plat.12 and another HST in plat.11. Leonard Rogers.
A Class 108 DMU arrived at Blaenau Ffestiniog, set CH634 (53933 + 51566) in March 1990. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
I often had a drive over to Cosford in 1991 because of 1) the MGR traffic to and from Ironbridge Power Station still sometimes with class 20s in charge and 2) for the first generation DMUs on the Chester services. On 14 September 1991 class 108 T072 (53933 + 51566) was photographed in a lucky patch of sunshine on a largely cloudy morning as it slowed for the stop at the nearby station while working a Chester to Wolverhampton service. The bracket signal was the obvious attraction of this location and without it the shot would have been much less photogenic. Peter Tandy.
Class 108 DMU set T072 (53933 and 51566) departs from Long Eaton station with the 14.20 Nottingham - Crewe service on 26 November 1991. Dave Warby.
The Stratford-upon-Avon to Leamington Spa services saw many different classes of DMU but I didn't see many 108s. This set, T072 (53933 + 51566), was climbing Hatton Bank on 27 June 1992 as it went towards a red signal protecting the 15mph junction for the Stratford branch. Peter Tandy.