Vehicle 50420 / 53420
Class 104
Builder: BRC&W
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30290
Diagram: 556
Allocations
| Apr-57 | New to | 9A (Longsight) | |
| Sep-57 | Transferred to | 9D (Buxton) | |
| Sep-63 | Depot code change | 9L | |
| 06/05/73 | Depot code change | BX | |
| 27/04/86 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| 11/05/86 | Withdrawn from | NH (Newton Heath) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50420 - original number
53420 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Disposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50420 | 59132 | 50424 | As delivered to - Apr-57 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59132 | 50424 | Noted 20th April 1957 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59132 | 50424 | Noted 25/11/67 - at Stockport Edgeley1 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59140 | 50424 | Noted 13/08/70 - in Manchester Piccadilly2 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59132 | 50424 | Noted 18/09/1971 - at Stockport3 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59132 | 50424 | Noted 04/09/74 - in Manchester Piccadilly2 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59138 | 50424 | Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59132 | 50424 | Noted 24/05/80 | ||||||
| 50420 | 59163 | 50426 | Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc4 | ||||||
| BX483 | 50420 | 59163 | 50426 | Noted circa 09/19824 | |||||
| BX480 | 50420 | 59163 | 50426 | Noted circa 10/1982 - Previously BX483.4 | |||||
| BX480 | 53420 | 59163 | 53426 | Noted circa 11/1984 - listed at BX4 | |||||
| 53420 | 59152 | 53474 | Noted 27/01/85 | ||||||
| BX480 | 53420 | 59152 | 53474 | Noted circa 06/19854 | |||||
| BX480 | 53420 | 59152 | 53474 | Listed at BX - circa Jul-85 | |||||
| BX480 | 53420 | 59152 | 53474 | Listed at BX - circa Dec-85 | |||||
| 53420 | 53427 | Formation change - NH - Mar-86 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Eddie Knorn
Images:
circa April 57
An official image of M50420 + M59132 + M50424, probably at Cleobury Mortimer. British Railways.
1st December 1979
Set number: BN455
Buxton Class 104 DMU set BN455 on Longsight depot on 1 December 1979. Closest is DMBS M50420. Brian Daniels.
1st April 1981
Set number: BN455
Complete with its Buxton depot trademark of a white cab roof, BRCW Class 104 Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS) M50420 was leading a six-car Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service along the station avoiding line at Kirkham & Wesham on August 1st 1981. In the cab window is Buxton set number BN455. Martyn Hilbert.
27th January 1985
On a snowy winters day Buxton based BRC&W class 104 dmu headed by the first of the class, M53420 with M59152, M53474, stand in my home village of Furness Vale, with a Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly service, 27th January 1985. Andrew J Crowther.
9th March 1985
Buxton based BRC&W class 104 dmu (M53420, M59152, M53474) breezes through Heaton Chapel with a Buxton-Manchester Piccadilly service, overtaking 25kv class 304 emu 304013 as it slows for its station stop. 9th March 1985. Andrew J Crowther.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 29th June 1985
Set number: BX496
Stratford-upon-Avon used to be the destination for many special trains although the number of such workings has lessened in recent years. This picture shows one of these, the Poynton Parish Puffa, standing in the long-gone "cold store" sidings on 29 June 1985. This train was formed of class 108+104 combination (closest being BX496, presumably 51947/59155/52062, the other was BX480, presumably 53420/59152/53474) and, obviously enough I suppose, ran from Poynton in Cheshire, which incidentally is a very attractively decorated station, adorned with many enamel advertisements. Peter Tandy.
Date: 29th June 1985
Set number: BX480
The passengers on the Poynton Parish Puffa were treated at Stratford-upon-Avon to a visit by the steam locomotive 46229 Duchess of Hamilton on 29 June 1985 although I don't recall taking any pictures of this. The return working of the steam special left a short while before the DMU (BX480, presumably 53474/59152/53420 and BX496, presumably 52062/59155/51947) went back to Cheshire and I photographed the latter from the window of the signal box. The industrial units in the background are the site of the erstwhile Stratford-upon-Avon shed and coaling stage. The entire backdrop is virtually unrecognisable nowadays and the signal box itself was demolished many years ago. Peter Tandy.
Date: 14th July 1985
Set number: BX484
Class 104 set BX484 at Llandudno on 14/7/85 with 'Stockport' on the destination blind. There is another set behind. From the left the vehicles are: M53431, M59137, M53496, M53420, M59152 and M53474. Kenneth Leiper.