Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Engines: Leyland 150hp
Transmission: Mechanical
Lot Number: 30465
Diagram: 543
28/02/59 | New | - stored at Warwick pending allocation | |
Apr-59 | Transferred to | 6K (Rhyl) | - stored pending allocation |
Jun-59 | Transferred to | 9E (Trafford Park) | |
4w/e 01/06/63 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
3w/e 31/10/65 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
4w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) | |
May 1973 | Depot code change | LO | |
12/05/85 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
14/05/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
08/04/91 | Withdrawn from | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX |
19/04/59 - The six 2-car sets stored at Warwick shed (50947-52) were noted passing through Coventry on 19/04/59 hauled by 43005 in the Nuneaton direction, heading for Stoke. They were to have travelled under their own power, but had flat batteries after months of storage.
10/05/87 - Published as moving NH-CF, move then cancelled.
50949 - original number
53949 - from 1983 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Booth Roe Metals, Rotherham
50949 | 56232 | As delivered to - 28th February 1959 - stabled at Warwick, pending allocation | |||||||
50949 | 56490 | Noted 01/01/68 - at Manchester Exchange1 | |||||||
50949 | 56109 | Noted 22/08/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50949 | 56109 | Noted 22/12/69 - at Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Longsight1 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 19/09/71 - on Chester depot1 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 20/04/73 - in Manchester Oxford Road2 | |||||||
LT314 | 50949 | 56232 | Noted 09/09/73 - on Chester depot2 | ||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot2 | |||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted 27/11/1976 - at Chester3 | |||||||
LO304 | 50949 | 56232 | Noted circa 08/19824 | ||||||
50949 | 56232 | Noted circa 01/19834 | |||||||
53949 | 54232 | Listed at LO - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53949 | 54232 | Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53949 | 54232 | Listed at NH - 10/05/87 | |||||||
N618 | 53949 | 54056 | Listed at NH - May 1988 | ||||||
53949 | 54056 | Noted 18/06/1988 - Barrow connection from BR Carlisle-Portsmouth excursion | |||||||
N618 | 53949 | 54056 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
NL254 | 53949 | 54056 | Listed at NL - 05/09/89 | ||||||
53949 | 54056 | Noted 02/10/89 - on 16:06 York - Sheffield direct via Pontefract5 | |||||||
53949 | 54056 | Noted 19/11/1989 - BLS Worth Valley Wanderer Railtour 51184-51808 + 53949-54056 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Eddie Knorn
5: Graeme Phillips
A Class 108 (53949) / 101 (presumably 54056) hybrid DMU formation is seen calling at the Retford low level station on 01/08/1990. The electrified flyover is the East Coast Main Line. Graeme Phillips Collection.
A two-car Class 101/108 hybrid DMU formed of cars 54056 & 53949 was arriving at Rufford with an Ormskirk to Preston service on the evening of April 1st 1989. The Tarleton Branch of the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was then a quiet little-used backwater. This location now has marinas either side of the canal, a footbridge, car parks and the railway is now obscured by trees. Martyn Hilbert.
54056 is the Met-Camm in a Class 101/108 hybrid (presumably with 53949) at Sheffield, 13th September 1989. Malcolm Clements.