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Vehicle 50044 / 53044

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

22/03/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
04/10/87	Transferred to	TS (Tyseley)
30/10/91	Withdrawn from	TS (Tyseley) PTSX

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50044 - original number
53044 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 25/02/1981 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Parry, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50044	56044	As delivered to 40A - 22nd March 1957
	50044	56044	Noted 26th Nov 1960
	50044	56044	Noted 27/07/67¹
	50044	56044	Noted May 1968
	50044	56003	Noted 02/05/70 - at Sheffield¹
	50044	56044	Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland²
	50044	56007	Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster²
	50044	56007	Noted 17/08/1973 - at Derby³
	50044	56028	Noted 05/07/74 - at Sheffield¹
	50044	56007	Noted 01/12/75 - at York with 50033/56010¹
	50044	56001	Noted 13/02/76 - at Brough¹
	50044	56001	Noted 03/04/76 - at York²
	50044	56036	Noted 12/09/76 - at Doncaster¹
	50044	56024	Noted 10/02/77 - at Cambridge²
	50044	56024	Noted 21/02/77 - at Lincoln¹
	50044	56029	Noted 24/05/80
	50044	56034	Noted 09/10/81
	50044	56034	Noted circa 02/1983⁴
	53044	54014	Noted circa 01/1986⁴
	53044	54043	Noted 14/08/87
	53044	54043	Noted 29/08/1987⁴
T234	53044	54043	Noted circa 01/1988⁴
T234	53044	54043	Listed at Tyseley - 7th April 1988
T234	53044	54043	Noted circa 12/1988⁴
T234	53044	54043	Listed at TS - 01/09/89
T024	53044	54043	New set number at TS - Nov-89 - ex-T234
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - 01/12/89
	53044	54043	Noted 06/05/1990 - at Tyseley depot⁵
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - mid May-90
T024	53044	54043	Noted circa 12/1990⁴
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - Mar-91
T024	53044	54043	Noted 20/03/91 - at Crewe⁶
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - Jul-91
T024	53044	54043	Listed at TS - Aug-91

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

Images:

18th April 1970

A Derby Heavyweight DMU formed of E50044 + E56044 in Lincoln Central on 18 April 1970. An image from the Jim Freebury Railway Slide Archive. David Page Collection.

13th March 1978

50044 at the head of 114 set, heading for Sheffield, seen at Grimsby on 13/3/78. Ian Francis.

2nd August 1978

Nottingham station on a wet and windy 2nd August 1978. This 2-car Class 114 dmu has just arrived with service from Skegness. I had arrived in Nottingham about 40 minutes earlier on the 09.35 Carlisle-Nottingham, hauled by 45 037, and was awaiting the 15.10 Nottingham-St Pancras (45140) to take me to Leicester. The Class 114 was formed 50044/56030. 50044 was new in March 1957, when it was allocated to Lincoln (40A). It stayed at Lincoln until October 1987, when it was transferred to Tyseley (TS). It was withdrawn from service at TS in October 1991 (during the Sprinter Revolution) and was scrapped by Mayer Newman at Snailwell. 56030 was new, also to 40A, in January 1957, and stated at LN until withdrawal in January 1986. 56030 (by then renumbered to 54030) was scrapped at Berry's yard in Leicester. Lewis Bevan.

26th May 1981

50044 at New Holland Pier on 26/5/81. Chris Lings.

26th May 1981

50044 is at the rear of this set departing from Grimsby Town, 26/5/81. Chris Lings.

7th April 1984

E53044 is at the front of a Class 114 set arriving into Cambridge station on April 7th, 1984. Michael Mensing.

20th April 1987

E53044 + E54042 at Malton with a York - Scarborough service on 20 April 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

12th May 1987

E53044 & E54043 at Derby on 12/05/87. Steve Jones.

14th August 1987

Class 114 E53044 + E54043 pass through Queen Adelaide with the 16.50 Peterborough to Cambridge, 14.08.87. Nicholas Youngman.

17th November 1987

Set number: T234

Class 114 vehicles 53044 + 54043 were reallocated from Lincoln to Tyseley (their first move since new) at the start of October 1987 becoming set T234. Here the set is seen a few weeks later on 17 November in Bristol Temple Meads and was noted as ready to work the 12:53 to Severn Beach. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Unknown date

Set number: T234

A Class 114 set in Derby station, date unknown. 53044 is on this end, labeled set T234, the other end is labeled T224 (presumably 54008). Malcolm Clements.

30th March 1989

Set number: T234

In Shrewsbury station on the 30th March 1989 is 53044, part of set T234. Chester is on the destination blind. Gazza Prescott.

30th April 1990

Set number: T24

By April 1990 class 114 units had largely taken over local trains between Stratford-upon-Avon and Leamington Spa. This is T024 (53044 + 54043) in platform 2 at Stratford on 30 April with the 17.12 departure with a couple of tourists appearing to be asking if this was their service. The people on the platform were waiting for the 17.30 train to Birmingham which was about to arrive in platform 1. Peter Tandy.

5th July 1990

A rather indistinct shot from a passing train of cl.114 nos.53044/54043 at Leamington on 5/7/90. Despite what the platform clock says, the time was ca. 15.50 and the unit may have formed an incoming service from either Hatton or Stratford-upon-Avon. This was during the period of four years or so at the end of the class's life when the remaining units were based at Tyseley (apart from a few which had gone into parcels service). They moved here in 1987 after a thirty-year stint based at Lincoln, their only home up to that point. Leonard Rogers.

24th November 1990

Set number: T024

Class 114 T024 (53044 + 54043) was in the soon to be lifted Cold Store Siding alongside platform 3 at Stratford-upon-Avon on 24 November 1990. It was unusual to see a DMU here on a Sunday at that date as there was no Sunday service to the station then, so I assume that it had failed and was waiting either for a fitter to arrive the next day or to be dragged back to Tyseley. Class 47 47827 was just arriving to take out the VSOE dining train with 47807 which had come into the station earlier. Peter Tandy.

11th November 1991

Class 114 DMBS 53044 at Snailwell on 11th November 1991. Nicholas Youngman.

11th November 1991

Set number: T024

Class 114 DMBS 53044 at Snailwell on the 11th November 1991. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 9th October 1981

E56034 + E50044 call at Retford Low Level on 09/10/1981 with the 09:52 Cleethorpes - Sheffield service. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Date: 17th November 1987

Set number: T234

Class 114 DMU set T234 (presumably 54043 + 53044) departing St Andrews Road for Severn Beach on 17 November 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: unknown

Set number: T224

This is presumed to be 54008, labeled T224, the other end is DMBS 53044 (T234). Seen in Derby station, date unknown. Malcolm Clements.

Date: 20th June 1989

Set number: T234

Class 114 DMU set formation no. T234 (presumably 54043 + 53044) is seen calling at Spondon, Derbyshire, with a Birmingham-Lincoln service, on Tuesday 20/06/1989. Graeme Phillips Collection.

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