Vehicle 50009 / 53009

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Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp / Albion 238hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30209
Diagram: 516

Allocations

20/11/56	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50009 - original number
53009 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

15/12/79 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 21/12/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50009	56009							As delivered to 40A - 20th November 1956
	50009	56009							Noted 19th Jul 1959
	50009	56006							Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
	50009	56009							Noted May 1968
	50009	56042							Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland1
	50009	56043							Noted 02/05/70 - at Sheffield1
	50009	56009							Noted 07/04/1972 - Observed departing Grantham for King's Cross at 20:10
	50009	56009							Noted 08/09/72 - at Ipswich2
	50009	56009							Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham3
	50009	56047							Noted 07/07/74 - at Sheffield1
	50009	56047							Noted 24/08/74 - on Lincoln depot4
	50009	56047							Noted 30/08/1974 - at Sheffield3
	50009	56013							Noted 08/01/75 - at Stainforth & Hatfield4
	50009	56038							Noted 18/08/76 - on 1808 Grantham-Skegness
	50009	56038							Noted 10/09/76 - at Doncaster1
	50009	56038							Noted 07/10/76 - at Cambridge4
	50009	56038							Noted 20/01/77 - at Cambridge4
	50009	56038							Noted 30/03/77 - at Brough1
	50009	56038							Noted 29/05/77 - on 0800 Crewe-Manchester Piccadilly
	50009	56038							Noted 25/06/77 - on 1248 Sheffield-Leeds
	50009	56030							Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
	50009	56038							Noted circa 10/19825
	53009	54028							Noted circa 10/19835
	53009	54045							Noted circa 05/19845
	53009	54047							Noted circa 01/19865
	53009	54047							Noted 19th August 1986
	53009	54047							Noted 03/11/19865

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Ipswich Transport Society
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

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22nd April 1970

A Class 114 (possibly 50009 at the front) with a van in tow at Louth on April 22, 1970, with the 13:32 to Peterborough. Photo by P.H.Wells. Nigel Walls.

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Unknown date

A Class 114 DMU with DMBS E50009 closest (the DTCL is possibly E56008) at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.

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24th March 1982

50009 with 56008 arriving Ely. Phil Bidwell.

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16th May 1982

Doncaster works 16th May 1982 Steve Montgomery.

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29th January 1989

Class 114 DMBS E53009 at Snailwell on 29 January 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

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4th February 1989

Class 114 DMBS E53009 at Snailwell on the 4th February 1989, with a plain blue liveried class 105 on the left number E54443 Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 28th October 1977

A Class 114 DMU (vehicles 50009/56009) at Skegness having arrived as the 08.44 from Nottingham on 28 October 1977. Both of these vehicles were new to 40A Lincoln on 20 November 1956, and ran as a unit for many years. 50009 was withdrawn while still at Lincoln on 29 June 1988, and was scrapped by Mayer Newman, of Snailwell. It's erstwhile partner, 56009, was transferred to Tyseley, and then to Chester, and was withdrawn on 24 May 1991. 56009 was scrapped at MC Metals, Glasgow. Lewis Bevan.

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Date: unknown

A Class 114 DMU with DTCL E56008 closest (the DMBS is possibly E50009) at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.