Vehicle 52083
Class 110
Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30692
Diagram: 563
Allocations
| 20/01/62 | New to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 9D | |
| 2w/e 06/05/67 | On loan to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| 2w/e 03/06/67 | Transferred to | 56G (Hammerton Street) | |
| Dec-67 | Depot code change | 55F | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | HS | |
| 13/05/84 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) | - Hammerton Street closed |
| 15/03/87 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
Refurbished
At Doncaster Works dated 04/02/1981 released in blue/grey liveryDisposal
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 52073 | 59815 | 52083 | As delivered to 26A - 20th January 1962 | ||||||
| 52083 | 59815 | 52073 | Noted 05/08/66 - at Bradford Exchange with 50493 + 59149 + 504411 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59815 | 52083 | Noted Autumn 1966 - at Brough on 07:56 Hull - Manchester Exchange1 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59815 | 52083 | Noted 01/06/67 - at Leeds City1 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59808 | 52083 | Noted 19/08/70 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59707 | 52083 | Noted 01/09/72 - in Liverpool Exchange1 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59698 | 52083 | Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59817 | 52083 | Noted 02/09/73 - in Sheffield Midland2 | ||||||
| 52073 | 59707 | 52083 | Noted 12/03/76 - at Cambridge2 | ||||||
| 51814 | 59703 | 52083 | Noted 10/11/79 | ||||||
| 52072 | 59702 | 52083 | Noted circa 10/19823 | ||||||
| 52068 | 59697 | 52083 | Noted circa 08/19833 | ||||||
| 51814 | 52083 | Noted 16/11/1983 - at Sheffield3 | |||||||
| 52073 | 59697 | 52083 | Noted circa 01/19843 | ||||||
| 51814 | 59382 | 52083 | Noted 11/01/86 - on 15:30 Blackpool South - Preston service4 | ||||||
| 51814 | 59382 | 52083 | Noted 07/10/19863 | ||||||
| 51814 | 52083 | Noted 22/07/87 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Eddie Knorn
4: Martin Baumann
Images:
late 1960s
A Class 110 set at Sheffield, with 52083 closest. Undated, but as the other two vehicles in the set and the Met-Camm alongside are in blue this was probably taken in the late 1960s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
1st April 1975
A Calder Valley Class 110 DMU awaits its next duty at Newton Heath depot near Manchester on April 1st, 1975. From the front are carriage numbers 52083, 59707 and 52073. Suthen Softy.
10th November 1979
Stabled in what can rather loosely be described as a 'shed' 'Calder Valley' BRCW Class 110 DMU Nos. E52083-E59703-E51814 inside the roofless depot at Bradford Hammerton Street on 10th November 1979. The Class 110 diesel multiple units were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company in conjunction with the Drewry Car Co. to operate services on the former Lancashire and Yorkshire main line, and spent their entire careers based around this same area. This earned them the name of the 'Calder Valley' sets. They were an updated version of the Class 104, with a revised cab design and raised bodyside window frames. Of the depot itself, the former Hammerton Street shed in Bradford closed to steam in 1958 to concentrate on DMU and diesel shunter maintenance and finally closed in 1984 when the remaining class 110 units allocated there were transferred to Neville Hill depot in Leeds. Gordon Edgar.
20th January 1981
E52083 at York. 20.01.81 Nicholas Youngman Collection.
23rd July 1985
Class 110 E52083 + E51814 with a Saltburn - Darlington service at Darlington on July 23, 1985. John Carter.
11th January 1986
51814-59382-52083 Blackpool South 11.01.1986 1530 to Preston. 52083 at rear nearest camera Martin Baumann.
7th February 1988
E52083 seen from the rear with E54374 part on the right at Snailwell on 7th February 1988. Nicholas Youngman.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: circa December 1957
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ184) showing a new three-car Rolls-Royce powered set E50273 + E59103 + E52083 to the east of Aldridge station, looking west, circa December 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.
Date: 17th May 1980
08525 rescues failed E52083 + E59711 + E52072 seen at Holgate, York on 17/05/1980. John Carter.
Date: 22nd March 1985
Known as Calder Valley sets the class 110's were primarily associated with the Trans Pennine route between Manchester and Leeds, via Halifax and Bradford so slightly unusual to see one at Chesterfield. Despite being an Eastern Region station it was very much Midland mainline territory. Here 2-car set 51814 + 52083 has just arrived with train 2H01 the 07.03 York to Chesterfield on 22 March 1985. It will return as the 09.00 to Sheffield. Adrian Nicholls.
Date: 22nd July 1985
A Class 110 seen at Newcastle on 22/07/1985. Whilst this Yorkshire-based class might have made occasional visits to Newcastle as arrivals from York, this image shows E51814 + E52083 awaiting departure with the 18:35 Newcastle - Sunderland Graeme Phillips Collection.