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Vehicle 50020 / 53020

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

01/01/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
2w/e 02/05/59	Transferred to	41A (Darnall)
2w/e 30/04/61	Transferred to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
21/06/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
04/10/87	To Parcels Sector at	CA (Cambridge)
circa Dec-88	Sector Change to	RPXN
02/05/90	Withdrawn from	CA (Cambridge) RPXX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50020 - original number
53020 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Oct-87 - Converted for parcels use

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 26/01/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

50020 was involved in the following incident:

28/01/70 - Dowdyke Bank Level Crossing, between Spalding and Boston, ER

Collision involving Class 114 / Road Tanker

Info from Peter Mullen

A tanker traversing the crossing was struck by the DMU (50020 & 56020) travelling at 50mph. More Details.

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

50020	56020		As delivered to 40A - 1st January 1957
50020	56021	50021	Noted 1st June 1957
50020	56020		Noted Aug-66 - at Brough¹
50020	56039		Noted 16th May 1968
50020	56041		Noted May 1968
50020	56020		Noted 21/08/68 - at Leeds City with 51286 + 56442¹
50020	56020		Noted 02/01/70 - in Sheffield Midland²
50020	56020		28/01/70
50020	56036		Noted 02/05/70 - at Doncaster¹
50020	56008		Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds¹
50020	56010		Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster²
50020	56010		Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 50006 + 56008¹
50020	56010		Noted 10/09/73 - at Grantham²
50020	56014		Noted 05/07/74 - at Doncaster¹
50020	56014		Noted 04/09/74 - in Sheffield Midland²
50020	56037		Noted 03/07/1975 - at Derby³
50020	56005		Noted 07/02/76 - at Brough¹
50020	56026		Noted 24/09/77 - at Nottingham²
50020	56026		Noted 20/12/77 - at Nottingham²
50020	56026		Noted 20/05/78 - at Bury St Edmunds²
50020	56015		Noted November 1980
50020	56021		Noted circa 02/1983⁴
50020	56021		Noted 04/02/83
53020	54021		Noted 24/04/1984⁴
53020	54026		Noted 08/12/1984 - BLS The Whitehall Mandarin Railtour 53020+54026 + 51832+51816
53020	54040		Noted 12/05/87 - at Norwich²
53020	53046		Noted 31/01/88
53020	53046		Noted 02/06/88 - at Norwich²
53020	54026		Noted 03/05/89
53020	53046		Noted 10/06/89

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

Images:

8th December 1984

The Branch Line Society Whitehall Mandarin railtour at Deepcar on 8 December 1984. Six Bells Junction lists the vehicles as 53020 + 54026 / 51832 + 51816. Stuart Mackay Collection.

7th March 1987

A Class 114 Derby Heavyweight DMU formed of 53020 + 54040 arrived at Grimsby Town on 7 March 1987, Stuart Mackay Collection.

7th March 1987

A Derby Heavyweight Class 114 DMU (DMBS 53020 + DTSL 54040) sits in Barton-on-Humber station on 7 March 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

2nd May 1988

Derby Class 114 DMU DMBS twin in parcels use, 53020+53046, stabled at Cambridge on 2-5-88, 55933 behind. On Tour With The Class 13 Army.

3rd May 1989

Passing through Northampton Station on the centre road is a parcels working formed of a 2-car Class 114 Derby Heavyweight (53020 and 54026). May 3rd, 1989. AndrewHA.

14th April 1990

Class 114 parcels vehicle E53020 seen in Mayer Parry's Snailwell yard for dismantling on April 14, 1990. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 31st January 1988

E53046 + E53020 + 93096 with Peterborough to Cambridge parcels at Ely, 31.01.88. Nicholas Youngman.

Date: 10th January 1989

A Class 114 2-car dmu (53046 + 50020) arrives at Northampton on 10 January 1989. This was, at this time, working for the parcels sector, and that sector's logo can be seen on the side of the leading vehicle. Lewis Bevan.

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