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Vehicle 51567 / 977854

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: 30461
Diagram: 609

Allocations

19/12/59	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
25/05/83	On loan to	HA (Haymarket)
08/07/83	Ex-loan back to	CH (Chester)
circa 1984	Transferred to	LO (Longsight)
12/05/85	Transferred to	NH (Newton Heath)
20/09/87	Transferred to	LE (Swansea Landore)
15/03/92	Transferred to	CF (Cardiff Canton) PCFX
25/09/92	Transferred to	LO (Longsight) RCLO
08/02/93	To departmental stock
Jan-94	Withdrawn

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

51567 - original number
977854 - from Feb-93 (departmental stock)

Department Use as ADB977854

Route Learner From 2/93 to 1/94. Carried set number LO911

Modifications

circa Dec-72 - AWS fitted
Sep-87 - Headlamp fitted

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 17/09/1982 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Preserved - more details.

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50930	51567		As delivered to 6G - 19th December 1959
	50926	51567		Noted 22/10/1980 - At Chester Station¹
	50926	51567		Noted circa 03/1981²
	50926	51567		Noted 21/10/82 - on Chester depot
	53926	59060	51567	Noted 04/07/83 - at Monktonhall Junction³
	53926	51567		Noted circa 08/1983²
	53926	51567		Noted circa 01/1984²
	53926	51567		Listed at LO - 01/01/85
	53926	51567		Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986
	53942	51567		Listed at NH - 10/05/87
S947	53942	51567		Formed at LE circa 10/87
S947	53942	51567		Listed at LE - Oct-87 - Headlight fitted
S947	53942	59039	51567	Formation change - LE - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 59039 added (ex-S950)
S947	53942	59050	51567	Listed at LE - 15/05/89
S947	53942	59050	51567	Noted circa 07/1989²
S947	53942	59050	51567	Noted circa 09/1989²
S947	53942	51567		Noted 27/12/90 - at Crewe⁴
spare	51567			Listed at LE - Jul-91
spare	51567			Listed at LE - Aug-91
S947	53621	51567		Listed at LE - Dec-91
S947	53627	51567		Noted circa 09/1992²
C947	53627	51567		Listed at CF - 24/09/92
LO615	53627	51567		Listed at LO - November 1992
	53627	51567		Noted 03/12/92 - on 11:47 Marple - Manchester Piccadilly via Bredbury⁵
LO615	53627	51567		Listed at LO - 10/12/92

Formation Sources
1: Shayne Lewis
2: Eddie Knorn
3: Leonard Rogers
4: Gerald Brown
5: David Bellamy

Images:

7th June 1983

Set number: 358

M51567, Sc59060 & M53926 at Dunfermline, Tuesday 7th June 1983, about to depart with the 19:47 Edinburgh Waverley – Cowdenbeath service. I considered this unusual during a visit to Scotland in June 1983, a 3 car DMU comprising two Class 108 motor cars (on loan from Chester) sandwiching a Metro Cammell trailer. What made it unusual was the centrally mounted headlamp on both motor cars which indicated that they had come from those sets so equipped to work the Central Wales Line. At this time the station nameboards simply read “Dunfermline” but the platform lamps confusingly still showed the station’s former name of “Dunfermline Lower”. Nowadays the station is known as “Dunfermline Town”. The local council, having devoted considerable energy in changing every road sign from “Town Centre” to “City Centre”, requested that the station be renamed “Dunfermline City”, which was abandoned as the cost pr Brian McDevitt.

20th October 1990

Set number: S947

I have very few photographs taken at Crewe and this is certainly my only after-dark shot from there. It shows class 108 set S947 (51567 + 53621) leading another unrecorded Class 101 set in platform 7 waiting to leave with an evening train to Shrewsbury on 20 October 1990. My notes say that it was a 15 second exposure on medium format 400asa TRI-X film at an aperture of f5.6 with the camera resting on my camera box. I had been out and about on the Network North-West day and hadn't want to lumber myself with the additional weight of my heavy tripod. Peter Tandy.

2nd January 1992

Set number: S947

Class 108 set S947 (51567 + 53621) waiting at Crewe to form a Crewe-Swansea service on 2nd January 1992. Standing next to Class 158, 158758. David Slack.

29th July 1992

Set number: S947

A two-car Class 108 DMU at Severn Beach on 29 July 1992. Carrying set S947 the vehicle closest is presumably 51567, transferred from Swansea to Cardiff in March of that year, in September it would move to its final allocation of Longsight. Alan Grange.

24th January 1993

Set number: LO615

Class 108 DMU set LO615 on Chester depot on 24 January 1993. Closest is DMSL 51567, behind is DMBS 53627, both would be transferred to departmental stock as a route learning unit two weeks later. John Law.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 21st October 1982

Class 108 Derby 2-car DMU 50926 + 51567 on Chester depot 21-10-82. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Date: 7th June 1983

Set number: 358

This shot of Set 358 was taken at Inverkeithing on the morning of Tuesday 7th June 1983. M53926 (with SC59060 + M51567) sets off on the climb to the Forth Bridge with the 08:38 Kirkcaldy – Edinburgh Waverley service. Brian McDevitt.

Date: 8th June 1983

Set number: 358

M53926, Sc59060 & M51567 at Kirkcaldy, Wednesday 8th June 1983 after working the 14:42 service from Edinburgh to Kirkcaldy and was returning to Edinburgh with the 15:38 service from Kirkcaldy. Brian McDevitt.

Date: circa 1988

Set number: S947

Class 108 S947 (presumably 53942 + 51567) is seen at Knighton, with Crewe on the blinds. Circa 1988. Tom Clift.

Date: 2nd January 1988

Set number: S947

Seen at Swansea on 2 January 1988 are Class 108s S947 (53942 + 51567) on the 15:22 to Llandeilo and S941 (51562 + 51922) on the 14:05 to Milford Haven. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 1989

Set number: S947

Set S947 arrives at Gowerton in 1989. The first two vehicles are presumably 53942 and Met-Camm trailer brake 59050, 51567 should be on the rear. John Law.

Date: 24th January 1993

Set number: LO615

Class 108 DMU set LO615 on Chester depot on 24 January 1993. Closest is DMBS 53627, behind is DMSL 51567, both would be transferred to departmental stock as a route learning unit two weeks later. John Law.

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