Vehicle 50025 / 53025

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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

11/01/57	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29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)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:

50025 - original number
53025 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 15/12/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50025	56025							As delivered to 40A - 11th January 1957
	50025	56025							Noted 05/08/66 - at Leeds City1
	50025	56025							Noted May 1968
	50025	56004							Noted 16/08/1971 - at Doncaster2
	50025	56025							Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster1
	50025	56025							Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham3
	50025	56025							Noted 17/04/74 - at Leeds with 50039/560291
	50025	56025							Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield1
	50025	56025							Noted 24/08/74 - at Grantham4
	50025	56025							Noted 30/08/1974 - at Sheffield3
	50025	56025							Noted 20/09/1975 - R.C.T.S. Lincoln Imp RailTour
	50025	56002							Noted 04/09/76 - at Sheffield1
	50025	56029							Noted 27/08/77 - on 0953 Cleethorpes-Sheffield with 50015 + 56015
	50025	56029							Noted 24/09/77 - in Sheffield Midland4
	50025	56044							Noted 02/02/78 - at Bury St Edmunds4
	50025	56014							Noted 29/03/78 - at Bury St Edmunds4
	50025	56004							Noted 20/06/1979 - Seen at Barrow in Furness on a school excursion with 50017-560325
	50025	56004							Noted 04/07/1979 - Walton Girls Secondary School special train Grantham-Norwich and return 50031-56036+56004-50025
	50025	56017							Noted circa 10/19825
	53025	54017							Noted circa 10/19835
	53025	54006							Noted 08/05/1984 - At Sheffield5
	53025	54006							Noted 24/02/86 - at Norwich4
	53025	54006							Noted circa 05/19865
	53025	54006							Noted 11/12/19865
	53025	54006							Noted 24/04/1987 - at Leeds6

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Robert Chilton

Images:

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20th September 1975

E50025 + E56025 in the bay platform at Grantham with the RCTS "Lincoln Imp" railtour on 20 September 1975. On the left 47 458 prepares to depart with a northbound service. Ian Cuthbertson Collection.

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2nd October 1976

A Class 114 DMU, led by DMBS E50025, arrives at Whatstandwell, Derbyshire, with a service to Derby, Saturday 02/10/1976. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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6th July 1978

Four Class 114 DMUs are seen in Sheffield station on 6 July 1978. E50025 is closest on the right with the 10:41 to Leeds, the set in the adjacent road will work the 10.55 to Retford. Michael Mensing.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 2nd May 1978

E56044 + E50025 approaching Whitemoor Junction, March, with a Cambridge to Doncaster service on 2 May 1978. Phil Bevan.

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Date: 23rd July 1981

Barton-on-Humber station photographed on 23 July 1981. The train is the 12.00 to Cleethorpes, formed of Class 114 2-car DMU consisting of 56017/50025. Lewis Bevan.

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Date: 4th December 1988

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