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Vehicle 50535 / 53535

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: 30296
Diagram: 556

Allocations

3w/e 19/04/58	New to	5D (Cockshute)
4w/e 01/07/61	Transferred to	21F (Ryecroft)
Sep-63	Depot code change	2G
w/e 10/10/64	Transferred to	6A (Chester)
4w/e 06/02/65	Transferred to	6G (Llandudno Junction)
3w/e 02/10/65	Transferred to	9D (Newton Heath)
4w/e 06/11/65	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
May 1973	Depot code change	LO
May-80	Transferred to	NH (Newton Heath)
09/02/86	Withdrawn from	NH (Newton Heath)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

50535 - original number
53535 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50535	56178	As delivered to 5D - 3w/e 19/04/58
LT305	50535	56178	Listed at 9A - circa Jul-70
	50535	56178	Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight¹
	50535	56178	Noted 12/09/71 - at Stalybridge¹
	50535	56178	Noted 09/09/1975 - 19:07 Stalybridge to Stockport²
	50535	56178	Noted Jun-76 - in Manchester Piccadilly¹
	50535	56178	Noted 17/07/76 - in Manchester Piccadilly¹
NH341	50535	56176	Noted circa 05/1982³
	50535	56176	Noted circa 02/1983³
	50535	56175	Noted 02/04/1983 - LNER Society Llandudno Junction to Blaenau Ffestiniog and return section of Conway Valley Express Railtour 56175-50535+53228-54055+50358-56113+50931-51562
	53535	54176	Noted 05/01/1984 - at Liverpool Lime Street³

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

Images:

6th July 1959

The 1.40pm Birmingham New Street - Rugby Midland service arrives into Stechford station on 6 July 1959. It is formed of BRC&W vehicles, twin set M50535 + M56178 with two vehicles from a three-car set added to the rear. Michael Mensing.

July 1964

A BRC&W driver-trailer set is seen at Aldridge in July 1964, formed of M50535 and M56178 which were allocated to Ryecroft. Michael Mensing.

20th October 1984

A dull, grey and wet morning on platform 2 at Wigan Wallgate sees Class 104 53535 at the front of the 10.00 departure for Kirkby. This 1958 vintage car was by then showing its age but it lasted in service until February 1986, before being scrapped almost immediately. 20th October 1984. S Gaskell.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: autumn 1962

A BRC&W twin DMU formed of M56178 and presumably M50535 seen at Redditch in autumn 1962. Michael Mensing.

Date: autumn 1962

A BRC&W twin DMU formed of M56178 and presumably M50535 seen at Redditch in autumn 1962. Michael Mensing.

Date: 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.

Date: 11th May 1981

A view along the then double track Ormskirk route on Farington Moss with a Class 104 on the 11.55 Ormskirk to Preston service on a warm May 11th 1981. The two-car DMU is running between the occupation crossings at Naptha Lane and Lodge Lane, the then full-height chimney at the former Moss's Cotton Mill in Lostock Hall is prominent in this flat landscape. Closest is DTSL M56176 working with DMBS M50535. Martyn Hilbert.

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