Vehicle 50039 / 53039

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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

27/02/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
04/10/87	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
15/05/89	Withdrawn from	TS (Tyseley) PTSX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50039 - original number
53039 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 29/10/1982 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50039	56039							As delivered to 40A - 27th February 1957
	50038	56015	50039						Noted 1957
	50039	56039							Noted 13th Aug 1959
	50039	56024							Noted 01/04/69 - in Sheffield Midland1
	50039	56039							Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland2
	50039	56039							Noted 14/08/1973 - at Derby3
	50039	56029							Noted 17/04/74 - at Leeds with 50025/560251
	50039	56034							Noted 29/08/74 - at Doncaster2
	50039	56013							Noted 08/10/75 - at Brough1
	50039	56013							Noted 26/10/75 - at Brough1
	50039	56014							Noted 06/12/75 - at Brough with 50003/560131
	50039	56013							Noted 13/01/76 - at Brough1
	50039	56012							Noted 10/06/76 - at Cambridge2
	50039	56012							Noted 10/09/76 - at Grantham2
	50039	56037							Noted 21/02/77 - at Brough1
	50039	56013							Noted 13/12/80
	50039	56001							Noted circa 04/19824
	50039	56001							Noted 08/05/1982 - Special Train Cleethorpes-Spalding 50039-56001+56049-50033+50012-56043
	50039	56042							Noted circa 02/19834
	53039	54042							Noted circa 05/19844
	53039	54003							Noted circa 03/19854
	53039	54024							Noted 20/05/86 - at York2
	53039	54024							Noted 31/10/1986 - at Ely on 08.45 Cambridge to Leicester.5
	53039	54023							Noted 06/06/87 - on Worksop - Shirebrook services6
T233	53039	54024							Noted 26/10/87
	53039	54024							Noted 14th February 1988
T233	53039	54024							Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T233	53039	54024							Noted circa 05/19884
	53039	54024							Noted 30/07/88 - on 10:06 Nottingham - Derby
T233	53039	54024							Noted circa 03/19894

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Nicholas Youngman
6: David Bellamy

Images:

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18th September 1983

A Class 114 DMU with DMBS E53039 closest in Nottingham station with a Grantham service on 18 September 1983. Robert Thomas.

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6th August 1988

Set number: T233

Tyseley-based 2-car Class 114 set T233 (presumably 53039 + 54024) passes Three Spires Junction on 6 August 1988 on what I think was a Coventry-Stafford service. The line on the left formerly led to Coventry Colliery, which closed in October 1991. Lewis Bevan.

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6th August 1988

Set number: T233

Tyseley-based 2-car Class 114 set T233 (presumably 53039 + 54024) passes Three Spires Junction on 6 August 1988 on what I think was a Coventry-Stafford service. Lewis Bevan.

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22nd February 1991

Set number: T233

Class 114 53039 (T233) at Snailwell on 22nd February 1991. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 13th December 1980

The 12.38 Doncaster - Cambridge dmu passes Whitemoor Jn on December 13th 1980. Class 114 Derby 'heavyweight' set E56013 + E50039 is leading a hybrid Norwich set no. 79 consisting of Class 104 BRCW motor car E50597 and Cravens built Class 105 trailer E56131. Many of the Lincoln allocated class 114s had been repainted and refurbished by this time, but this set is still in BR standard blue. Gerard Fletcher.

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Date: 26th October 1987

Set number: TS233

Recently transferred from Lincoln to Tyseley, set T233 (54024 + 53039) is seen at Llandrindod Wells with 55034 on the rear. They are working the 10:42 Shrewsbury - Llandovery service on October 26th, 1987. Tom Clift.