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Vehicle 50136 / 53136

Class 111

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

Allocations

w/e 27/04/57	New to	9A (Longsight)
Jun-57	Transferred to	9D (Buxton)
Oct-58	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
4w/e 01/07/61	Transferred to	9D (Buxton)
4w/e 02/02/63	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
15/02/87	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill)

Notes

27th December 1987 - Seen in Tinsley Yard

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50136 - original number
53136 - from May-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

circa Dec-86 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 01/02/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50136	56092	As delivered to 9A - Apr-57
	50136	56092	Noted 6th May 1957
	50136	56092	Noted 22nd June 1958
	50136	56092	Transfer to 55H - w/e 30/04/66 - ex-LMR
	50136	56093	Noted 05/08/66 - at Leeds City¹
	50136	56093	Noted 27/07/68 - in Leeds City¹
	50136	56093	Noted 07/09/68 - at York¹
	50136	56092	Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds¹
	50136	56093	Noted 22/12/69 - at Sheffield Midland¹
	50136	56093	Noted 24/10/70 - at Sheffield Midland¹
L154	50136	56093	Noted circa 1971²
	50136	56093	Noted 08/09/73 - at York³
	50136	56093	Noted 19/04/74 - at Leeds¹
	50136	56093	Noted 29/10/75 - at York¹
	50136	56073	Noted 07/04/1976 - at Carnforth⁴
	50136	56093	Noted 30/03/77 - at Brough¹
	50136	56076	Noted circa 1978²
	50136	56093	Noted 04/01/78
	50136	56076	Noted 19/06/82 - on Sheffield - Leeds service
	53136	54076	Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds²
	53136	54076	Noted 03/08/83 - at Church Fenton
	53136	54076	Listed at NL - 01/01/85
	53136	54076	Noted 29/05/85 - on Ormskirk to Preston service
	53136	54076	Noted circa 02/1986²
	53136	53182	Noted circa 10/1986²
	53136	54076	Noted 26/10/1986²
	53136	53182	Noted 05/11/1986²

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

Images:

6th May 1957

Borrowed from the Manchester area, M50136 (and presumably 56092) in platform 9 at Birmingham New Street waiting to leave with a British Industries Fair special to Castle Bromwich on the 6th May 1957. Michael Mensing.

Unknown date

A Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camm set at Stockport (Edgeley). The power car is M50136, the trailer should be M56092. Date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

19th June 1982

E50136 + E56076 on a Sheffield - Leeds service arrives into Barnsley on 1982-06-19. Jumble Lane signalbox in the background. John Carter.

29th May 1985

Complete with its West Yorkshire PTE Metrotrain branding, a 2-Car Class 111/101 Met-Camm formed of E53136 & E54076 was working a tea-time out and back Preston to Ormskirk service on May 29th 1985, accelerating away from the single line token exchange at Midge Hall. The unit had worked a Preston to Leeds service and was utilised on the Ormskirk line as a fill-in turn before working back across the Pennines. This was the period when three different DMU sets appeared on Ormskirk services in the early evening in the days when the passing loop at Rufford was utilised to give an intensive service. Martyn Hilbert.

12th March 1989

Class 111 E53136 awaiting disposal at Snailwell on 12th March 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 6th May 1957

56092 (with 50137 on the left, 50136 on the right) heads out of Birmingham New Street at 5.39pm on the 6th May 1957. They were working British Industries Fair shuttles to Castle Bromwich that day. Michael Mensing.

Date: 3rd August 1983

A Met-Camm set (E54076 + E53136) at Church Fenton on August 3, 1983. John Carter.

Date: 29th May 1985

Having worked over the Pennines from Leeds to Preston, an Eastern Region 2-Car Class 101 with West Yorkshire Metrotrain branding was used on a fill-in turn from Preston to Ormskirk at tea-time on May 29th 1985. This was a Monday-Friday routine, that saw three different DMU sets working to Ormskirk in the early evening, the services crossing in the loop at Rufford. Having worked to Ormskirk E54076/E 53136 pass over Pages Crossing returning to Preston on the approach to Midge Hall. Martyn Hilbert.

Date: 15th November 1986

A Met-Camm set at Marsden, West Yorkshire on 15/11/1986. The formation is noted as including cars E51496 E53136 E53182. The closest car is probably 53211, still carrying a Tyne & Wear PTE logo, it was transferred from Heaton to Neville Hill in June. Is the set arriving at the station, displaying red marker lights? Graeme Phillips Collection.

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