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Vehicle 50013 / 53013

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

04/12/56	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29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)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:

50013 - original number
53013 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 17/11/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

50013	56013	As delivered to 40A - 4th December 1956
50013	56013	Noted 09/07/66 - at Brough with 50023 + 56023¹
50013	56013	Noted Aug-66 - at Brough¹
50013	56013	Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster¹
50013	56013	Noted May 1968
50013	56013	Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland¹
50013	56013	Noted 02/01/70 - in Sheffield Midland²
50013	56002	Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 51814 + 59809 + 51832¹
50013	56002	Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham ³
50013	56039	Noted 25/10/75 - at Leeds¹
50013	56039	Noted 01/11/75 - at Brough¹
50013	56039	Noted 30/04/76 - at Doncaster²
50013	56030	Noted 04/06/77 - on 0930 Lincoln Central-Sheffield
53013	54002	Noted circa 11/1983⁴
53013	54044	Noted circa 05/1986⁴
53013	54044	Noted 28/08/1986⁴
53013	54044	Noted 25/11/86

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn

Images:

30th July 1980

New Holland Pier on 30 July 1980, with 50013 + 56008 on the 11.24 to Barton. The pier was the terminus for the ferry across the Humber from Hull. The ferry closed, as did New Holland Pier station, on 24 June 1981 when the Humber Bridge opened. Lewis Bevan.

7th July 1984

Class 114 Derby Heavyweight 2-car DMU 53013 + 54002 at Cleethorpes on 7-7-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 30th July 1980

Class 114 56008 + 50013 in New Holland Pier station on 30 July 1980 on the 11:24 to Barton-on-Humber, with a Cravens DMU behind. Lewis Bevan.

Date: 22nd May 1982

Set number: 37

The 12.40 Doncaster - Cambridge has Cravens set 37 trailer E56457 with a Stratford painted silver roof, while alongside just arriving is the 14.30 Cambridge - Lincoln Central with Derby heavyweight Class 114 E50013 + E56045. In March station on May 22nd 1982. Gerard Fletcher.

Date: 25th November 1986

On railtour duty are 2+2 Derby built class 114 dmu's comprising of cars E53047 + E54018 / E54044 + E53013, pause for a photo stop at Rotherham Masborough's platform 4. I have no real recollection of this tour, where it started or finished, who ran it, I've no paperwork for it, Six Bells Junction has drawn a blank, all I know it also visited Wakefield and went through Tinsley Yard, I've a few naff photo's to tell me that, so has anybody out there got any idea's? Rotherham Masborough closed on the 3rd October 1988, replaced by Rotherham Central, although the line is still in use. Andrew J Crowther.

Date: 25th November 1986

On railtour duty are 2+2 Derby built class 114 dmu's comprising of cars E53047 + E54018 / E54044 + E53013, pause for a photo stop at Rotherham Masborough's platform 4, 25th November 1986. I have no real recollection of this tour, where it started or finished, who ran it, i've no paperwork for it, Six Bells Junction has drawn a blank, all i know it also visited Wakefield and went through Tinsley Yard, i've a few naff photo's to tell me that, so has anybody out there got any idea's? Rotherham Masborough closed on the 3rd October 1988, replaced by Rotherham Central, although the line is still in use. Andrew J Crowther.

Date: 4th December 1988

Class 114s E54021, E53013 and E53025 at Snailwell on December 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

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