Vehicle 50920 / 53920
Class 116
Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: High Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: None
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30364
Diagram: 554
Allocations
| 2w/e 31/05/58 | New to | 88A (Cardiff Cathays) | |
| Jan-61 | Depot code change | 88B | |
| Mar-62 | Depot code change | 88M | |
| Nov-64 | Transferred to | 84A (Laira) | |
| Mar-66 | On loan to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| May-66 | Transferred to | 82A (Bristol Bath Road) | |
| Nov-66 | Transferred to | 86A (Cardiff Canton) | |
| 18/06/72 | Transferred to | 66C (Hamilton) | |
| May-73 | Depot code change | HN | |
| 26/06/77 | Transferred to | SF (Stratford) | |
| 11/05/86 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
| 11/10/87 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
| 30/10/88 | Withdrawn from | NH (Newton Heath) |
Notes
October 1987 - Seen in Rail Blue livery
The vehicle carried the following numbers:
50920 - original number
53920 - from 21/04/83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Modifications
26/05/79 - AWS fitted
Disposal
Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester
Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | As delivered to 88A - 2w/e 31/05/58 | ||||||
| CAT352 | 50867 | 50920 | Listed at CAT - Jul-62 - and centre car | ||||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Transfer to 84A - Nov-64 | ||||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Transfer to 82A - May-66 | ||||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Noted 06/11/70 - at Cardiff1 | ||||||
| CTN316 | 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Listed at Canton - circa Jan-71 | |||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Noted 25/08/1971 - at Cardiff2 | ||||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Noted 24/07/1973 - at Glasgow Central2 | ||||||
| 163 | 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Noted 27/08/74 - on Hamilton depot3 | |||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Noted 01/09/1975 - at Glasgow Central2 | ||||||
| 50867 | 59375 | 50920 | Noted 29/08/1979 - At Wickford working to Southminster and return4 | ||||||
| 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted circa 01/19845 | ||||||
| 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted 22/03/1986 - in Stratford Works6 | ||||||
| TS702 | 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted circa 06/19865 | |||||
| TS702 | 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986 | |||||
| T355 | 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted 14/04/1987 - Used for a filming contract on the Severn Valley Railway ( http://www.hatspics.co.uk/type_years_photos.php?type=SVR&year=1987 and https://www.svrwiki.com/Diesel_Locomotives_visiting_the_SVR_for_galas | |||||
| 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted 27/06/87 - at Norwich, all blue set3 | ||||||
| T355 | 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Listed at TS - Jul-87 | |||||
| TS355 | 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted October 1987 | |||||
| 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted 02/10/87 - on 14:32 Birmingham New Street - Worcester Foregate Street7 | ||||||
| 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted 02/10/87 - on 15:42 Worcester Foregate Street - Birmingham New Street (via Worcester SH, reverse)7 | ||||||
| 53867 | 59372 | 53920 | Noted 14th February 1988 | ||||||
| N358 | 53867 | 53920 | Listed at NH - March 1988 | ||||||
| N358 | 53867 | 59114 | 53920 | Listed at NH - May 1988 | |||||
| N358 | 53867 | 59114 | 53920 | Noted circa 05/19885 | |||||
| N358 | 53867 | 59114 | 53920 | Noted circa Jul-88 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Robert Chilton
7: Martin Baumann
Images:
Unknown date
A Class 116 DMU with E50920 closest at Stratford, date unknown. Paul Redmond.
1st May 1980
Weary commuters board E50920 as it sits in the bay platform at Wickford on May 1st 1980. The three-car suburban Class 116 was forming an early evening service on the 16.5 Mile Southminster Branch. There is a fine selection of period cars lined up outside the station along with an Eastern Counties green liveried Leyland National Bus awaiting custom outside the station entrance. Martyn Hilbert.
7th June 1986
A Class 116 DMU formed of 53920 + 59372 + 53867 is seen at Bearley on 7 June 1986. The set had been transferred to Tyseley a few weeks prior from Stratford. Keith Miller.
8th June 1986
Set number: TS702
TS702 (53867 + 59372 + 53920) at Tyseley, Sunday 8 June 1986. Mel Holley.
11th June 1986
Set number: TS702
Class 116 Derby 3-car DMU, Tyseley set 702, 53920+59372+53867 all in rail blue at Birmingham Moor Street 11-6-86 The set had been transferred up from Stratford and was the only rail blue set in the Birmingham area. Never repainted, it was withdrawn in these colours a couple of years later. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.
12th July 1986
Set number: TS702
Class 116 53920, set number T702 (presumably with 59372 + 53867), is seen at Tyseley on 12.07.1986 in all over blue livery. This had been transferred from down south and was unusually still in all over blue. Andy Cole.
circa 1986
A slightly blurred shot of an all-blue Tyseley DMU set (53920 and presumably 59372 + 53867) arriving at Hereford with an evening service from Birmingham, circa 1986. John Crooks.
12th August 1986
Set number: T702
Still in BR blue livery and destined to remain so until withdrawal, Tyseley class 116 DMU set T702, comprising M53920, 59372, 53867, sat in the bay platform 4 at Hereford station on 12th August 1986. Paul James.
3rd September 1986
Set number: TS702
TS702 - 53920 + 59372 + 53867 - seen in the sunshine under dark skies in Leamington Spa station on Wednesday 3/9/86. Mel Holley.
January 1987
Set number: T702
All blue Class 116 DMU, set TS 702, formed DMS 53920, TC 59372 & DMBS 53867, runs along the Up line, having crossed over from the Down Platform Loop. January 1987. Paul James.
25th April 1987
Set number: TS355
Set TS355 in Birmingham Moor Street on 25/4/87. Composed of 53920 + 59372 + 53867, which were recently ex-Stratford. It was the first all-over blue set noted in the Birmingham area for a while. Andy Leckenby.
May 1987
Set number: TS355
BR blue class 116 DMU TS355 (53920 + 59372 + 53867) leaves Birmingham Moor St. for Stratford-upon-Avon in May 1987. Chris Morrison.
17th October 1987
Set number: T702
Derby built Class 116 high density set, ex Tyseley set T702 comprising of 53920, 59372, 53867 is seen in all over blue livery, at Manchester Victoria. These high density sets were certainly not common to Manchester and was probably drafted in to cover the Pacer shortage at the time before withdrawal, this was one of the last Class 116 sets to carry all over blue livery and was withdrawn in this livery. 17th October 1987. Andrew J Crowther.
9th December 1987
With frost still on the sleepers at lunchtime, a three-car Class 116 Suburban DMU with Driving Motor Second M53920 leading (presumably with 59372 + 53867), was darkening the sky as it climbed the gradient from Farington Curve Junction with a Preston to Ormskirk service on December 9th 1987. The DMU was passing the site of the former Moss Lane Junction that ran straight ahead towards Lostock Hall at this location. Until closure in 1972, it enabled trains to and from East Lancashire to access the former main line to Ormskirk and Liverpool Exchange without running via Preston. In the foreground is the part dismantled former Up line to Midge Hall, taken out of use in 1983, it took many years for it to be lifted and the track materials to be recovered. Martyn Hilbert.
1988
The last rail blue Class 116 set (53920 and presumably 59372 + 53867) in Southport circa early 1988. Graeme Phillips Collection.
5th April 1988
A Class 116 set (53920 + 59372 + 53867) and a Class 104 set on the 1527 Southport - Manchester Victoria awaiting departure at Southport (at 1515) Tuesday 5th April 1988. Colin Brooks.
30th October 1988
Set number: N358
Class 116 M53920 (M53867 in background) at Vic Berrys, Leicester 30-10-88. Kevin Dowd.
The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:
Date: 17th May 1986
Set number: T702
Class 116 53867, set number T702 (presumably with 59372 + 53920), is seen in all over blue livery at Tyseley on 17.05.1986. This was one of the last Class 116 sets to carry all over blue livery and was withdrawn in this livery. Andy Cole.
Date: 24th May 1986
Set number: TS702
Still in BR blue livery, Tyseley Class 116 DMU set TS702 (presumably 53867 + 59372 + 53920) sits in the bay platform - platform 4 - at Hereford station on 24th May 1986. John Crooks.
Date: 24th May 1986
Set number: TS702
Still in BR blue livery, Tyseley class 116 DMU set TS702 (presumably 53867 + 59372 + 53920) heads into Hereford from Shelwick Junction with a train from Birmingham on 24th May 1986. John Crooks.
Date: 7th June 1986
Set number: TS702
Tyseley's class 116 unit T702 (53867 and presumably 59372 + 53920) stands in platform 3 at Stratford-upon-Avon on 7 June 1986 with the 08.30 to Birmingham Moor Street and before the driver had returned to the cab after shunting the train from platform 1 and changed the lights to white. At this time several DMUs were stabled overnight in the platforms here as the station office was a crew signing-on point with its own allocation of drivers and guards. A class 121 single car unit is just visible behind T702 waiting to shunt into platform 1 and work Leamington Spa trains. In the winter the units were left with their engines idling all night, possibly because they wouldn't have started on a frosty morning, and a cloud of dense stinking diesel exhaust often hung over the station area. Peter Tandy.
Date: 8th June 1986
Set number: TS702
Tyseley Class 116 DMU set TS702 (53867 + 59372 + 53920) departs Stratford-upon-Avon with a Birmingham service on 8 June 1986. Keith Miller.
Date: 1st July 1986
Set number: TS702
In 1986 I lived within sight of the railway line at Stratford-upon-Avon and from my kitchen window on 1 July 1986 saw the last all-blue class 116 (set TS702, presumably 53867 + 59372 + 53920) arrive from Birmingham Moor Street to form the 08.00 departure back to the West Midlands. I grabbed a camera and asked the signaller, a good friend, if I might take a shot from his window as the unit crossed the Stratford-upon-Avon canal alongside a good show of elderflower on the embankment. A class 121 single unit had fortunately for me just gone towards the station with an arrival to leave a few minutes later as the 08.12 to Leamington Spa. I didn't have time to wait for this to leave as it was time to head off to work in town. Peter Tandy.
Date: 1st July 1986
Set number: TS702
After work on 1 July 1986 I kept an eye open for T702, the last all-blue class 116 DMU, to appear again at Stratford-upon-Avon. The diagrams weren't straightforward for any particular unit and involved trips over several different routes. This unit had clearly switched to the Leamington Spa line as it arrived at Stratford ready to form the 18.35 service back to that town. I had a word with the signalman on the 2nd shift and established that he was happy for me to take a lineside shot as the train left the station. The signal in the foreground is the lower quadrant controlling the exit from the Cold Store Siding by then used only for the overnight stabling of stock (and failed units awaiting rescue). TS702 is presumably formed 53867 + 59372 + 53920. Peter Tandy.
Date: 4th October 1986
Set number: TS702
The last surviving all blue class 116 set, T702, formed of 53867, 59372 and 53920 looked a bit scruffy when I photographed it on a Four Oaks service leaving Longbridge on 4 October 1986 with the long-gone British Leyland Motor Works in the background. Peter Tandy.
Date: 18th April 1987
53867 at Wolverhampton on 18/04/87, almost certainly forming a Shrewsbury line service, presumably with 59372 + 53920. Steve Jones.
Date: 16th June 1987
A 16 June 1987 image at Tyseley with the final all-blue class 116 (53867 + 59372 + 53920) leaving the GWR main line to Leamington Spa and joining the North Warwickshire Line on its way either to Shirley or Stratford-upon-Avon. Peter Tandy.
Date: 5th April 1988
A Class 104 (53529 + 53421) with a Class 116 (53920 + 59372 + 53867) on the 1527 Southport - Manchester Victoria awaiting departure at Wigan Wallgate (at 1557) on Tuesday 5th April 1988. Colin Brooks.