Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Rolls Royce 180hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30248
Diagram: 520
Apr-57 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | |
4w/e 01/07/61 | Transferred to | 9D (Buxton) | |
w/e 04/11/61 | Transferred to | 24F (Fleetwood) | |
w/e 03/02/62 | Transferred to | 9D (Buxton) | |
4w/e 30/03/63 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 9D | |
w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 55H (Neville Hill) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NL | |
01/11/87 | To departmental stock | NL (Neville Hill) | |
15/01/88 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) |
50134 - original number
53134 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
977538 - from 01/11/87 (departmental stock)
Sandite / Route Learner From 11/87 to 8/88.
Sep-74 - AWS fitted
Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell
50134 | 56090 | As delivered to 9A - Apr-57 | |||||||
50134 | 56090 | Noted 20th April 1957 | |||||||
50134 | 56090 | Noted 6th May 1957 | |||||||
50134 | 56090 | Transfer to 55H - w/e 30/04/66 - ex-LMR | |||||||
50134 | 56090 | Noted 05/09/66 - at Leeds City1 | |||||||
50134 | 56090 | Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds1 | |||||||
50134 | 56092 | Noted 22/12/69 - at Sheffield Midland1 | |||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 28/04/73 - at Leeds1 | |||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 08/09/73 - at Huddersfield2 | |||||||
L141 | 50134 | 56091 | Noted 24/08/74 - at Sheffield Midland, set number carried on solebar2 | ||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 29/08/74 - at York2 | |||||||
50134 | 56091 | Noted 01/04/1976 - at Lancaster 3 | |||||||
50134 | 56054 | Noted Sep-76 - at Selby1 | |||||||
50134 | 56063 | Noted circa 01/19774 | |||||||
50134 | 56063 | Noted 15/04/79 - on 16:15 Leeds - Skipton5 | |||||||
50134 | 56063 | Noted 29/06/80 - between Morecombe Carnforth Lancaster area6 | |||||||
50134 | 56063 | Noted circa 04/19824 | |||||||
50134 | 56063 | Noted circa 02/19834 | |||||||
53134 | 54063 | Noted circa 10/19834 | |||||||
53134 | 54063 | Listed at NL - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53134 | 54063 | Noted circa 05/19864 | |||||||
53134 | 54063 | Noted 13/10/19864 | |||||||
53134 | 54063 | Noted 01/08/87 - on 06:08 Chesterfield - Sheffield | |||||||
53134 | 54063 | Noted 31/08/87 - at Ravensthorpe |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Phil Shatford
6: Shayne Lewis
M50134 and M56090, probably at the Met-Camm Saltley Works, circa October 1956. Negative WMP7801. Rolls Royce.
An official image (Metropolitan Cammell negative DZ163) showing the driver's compartment of M50134 circa April 1957. Metropolitan Cammell.
A Rolls-Royce powered Metro-Cammell DMU at Stockport (Edgeley) on April 9th 1960. DMBS M50134 is closest, with shed code 9A painted on the lower cab front on both sides. This was Longsight depot where it was allocated from new in April 1957 until June 1961 when it moved to Buxton. Michael Mensing.
A two-car Class 111 DMU departs from Bingley station with a Bradford service on 24 April 1976. The DMBS leading appears to be M50134. Michael Mensing.
The 3.35pm Leeds - Morecambe arrives into Keighley station on March 23, 1977, formed of a Roll-Royce powered Met-Camm set with DMBS M50134 leading. Michael Mensing.
A London-bound HST set, with E43100 leading eases its way off the swing bridge and through Selby as a Metro-Cammell Class 111 2-car unit waits to set off for York on a service from Hull on 15th May 1979. The leading car of the DMU is E50134 which was the first of the Rolls-Royce engined Class 111s, introduced in 1957. This particular car still retains its original marker light formation. Selby's signal box and banner signals are also still in use on this former stretch of the East Coast Main Line. Syd Young.
A two-car Met-Camm DMU in Saltaire station - date unknown. Closest is Class 111 DMBS E53134 with Leeds on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.
977538 - formerly Class 111 53134 - at Snailwell on May 31, 1989. Nicholas Youngman.
M56090 and M50134, probably at the Met-Camm Saltley Works, circa October 1956. Negative WMP7799. Rolls Royce.
54063 & 53134 at Ravensthorpe, 31/8/87. Malcolm Clements.