Vehicle 50449 / 53449
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: 30293
Diagram: 556
Allocations
| w/e 05/10/57 | New to | 9D (Buxton) | |
| Feb-58 | Transferred to | 5D (Cockshute) | |
| 3w/e 30/04/66 | Transferred to | 2H (Monument Lane) | |
| 4w/e 05/11/66 | Transferred to | 16C (Derby Etches Park) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | DY | |
| 13/09/81 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| 10/06/84 | Transferred to | BX (Buxton) | |
| 09/07/84 | Withdrawn from | BX (Buxton) |
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50449 - original number
53449 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Disposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50449 | 59157 | 50501 | As delivered to 9D - w/e 05/10/57 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59157 | 50501 | Noted 3rd November 1957 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59157 | 50501 | Noted 4th April 1958 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59142 | 50787 | Noted 17/08/68 - at Peterborough1 | ||||||
| EP476 | 50449 | 59157 | 50788 | Noted Apr-69 | |||||
| 50449 | 59157 | 50801 | Noted 14/04/69 - in Derby2 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59165 | 50498 | Noted 30/05/70 - at Peterborough2 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59152 | 50503 | Noted 02/10/1971 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59155 | 50503 | Noted 19/05/72 - at Crewe2 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59155 | 50503 | Noted 18/08/1972 - at Derby4 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59153 | 50503 | Noted 03/11/72 - at Crewe2 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59156 | 50496 | Noted 31/05/1974 - at Birmingham New Street3 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59153 | 50502 | Noted 05/03/1976 - at Loughborough4 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59135 | 50502 | Noted 18/06/77 - on 2E84 1320 Crewe-Lincoln St Marks with 50450 + 59156 + 50503 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59155 | 50502 | Noted 23/07/77 - on 2E85 0645 Derby-Lincoln St Marks with 51136 + 59528 + 51149 | ||||||
| 50449 | 59151 | 50503 | Noted 19/05/79 | ||||||
| NH135 | 50449 | 50503 | Noted circa 05/19825 | ||||||
| NH135 | 50449 | 50503 | Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Victoria5 | ||||||
| 50449 | 50503 | Noted circa 12/19825 | |||||||
| 50449 | 59389 | 52060 | Noted 19/01/19835 | ||||||
| 50449 | 50490 | Noted circa 03/19835 | |||||||
| 53449 | 59230 | 53522 | Noted circa 08/19835 | ||||||
| BX488 | 53449 | 59230 | 53522 | Noted 23/12/1983 - at Manchester Picc5 |
Formation Sources
1: Gerald Brown
2: Leonard Rogers
3: Jeremy Goodyear
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
Images:
May 1958
M50449 leads this three-car BRCW set seen north of Milnewton in May 1958. Michael Mensing.
2nd August 1980
A view along the District Civil Engineers sidings at Kirkham North Junction through the cast-iron span of bridge 26, as a 2-Car Class 104 DMU formed of cars M50449 & M50535 comes off the Ribby Curve and the end of the Coast Line with the 12.01 Blackpool South to Kirkham & Wesham on August 2nd 1980. These were the days when the core daytime service on the Blackpool South line ran to and from Kirkham only, utilising a reversing siding at the Preston end of Kirkham station. On weekday mornings a through service ran to Manchester Victoria and a corresponding return service ran in the evening, the unit stabling overnight at Blackpool South, the route then was still double track and South station had two platform roads. In the 1970's the through Manchester train was often formed of a Class 124 Transpennine DMU set. Martyn Hilbert.