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
11/07/59 | New to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
Aug-59 | Transferred to | 5D (Cockshute) | |
Oct-59 | Transferred to | 27F (Brunswick) | |
11/09/61 | Transferred to | 8H (Allerton) | - Brunswick closed |
Sep-63 | Depot code change | 8J | |
w/e 06/01/68 | Transferred to | 10E (Accrington) | |
Oct-72 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
May-73 | Depot code change | NH | |
09/06/85 | Transferred to | KD (Carlisle Kingmoor) | |
29/06/85 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
14/05/89 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) PTSX | |
01/10/89 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
30/09/90 | Transferred to | HT (Heaton) PHTX | |
25/11/90 | Transferred to | NL (Neville Hill) PNLX | |
29/09/91 | Transferred to | LO (Longsight) PLOX | |
02/07/92 | Withdrawn from | LO (Longsight) RCLO |
50974 - original number
53974 - from Feb-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
50974 | 56257 | As delivered to 26A - 11th July 1959 | |||||||
50974 | 56257 | Transfer to 27F - Oct-59 | |||||||
50974 | 56261 | Noted 04/06/71 - at Manchester Victoria1 | |||||||
50974 | 56257 | Noted 01/09/74 - on Barrow depot2 | |||||||
50974 | 56257 | Noted 22/05/76 - at Carnforth1 | |||||||
50974 | 56257 | Noted 27/09/1976 - at Preston 3 | |||||||
50761 | 50974 | Noted 27/09/1976 - at Preston 3 | |||||||
50974 | 56257 | Noted 09/07/79 - at Blackpool South | |||||||
50974 | 56227 | Noted 29/06/80 - on 16:23 Lancaster to Carnforth with 50960 + 562414 | |||||||
50974 | 56227 | Noted 05/07/80 - at Croston | |||||||
50974 | 56257 | Noted 14/11/80 - at Derby Litchurch Lane | |||||||
NH346 | 50974 | 56257 | Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Victoria5 | ||||||
50974 | 50499 | Noted circa 12/19825 | |||||||
53974 | 59390 | 53634 | Noted circa 04/19835 | ||||||
51934 | 59387 | 53974 | Noted 11/03/1984 - LCGB Staffordshire Ranger Railtour 53974-59387-51934 + 51586-59583-51577 | ||||||
53974 | 54180 | Noted circa 06/19845 | |||||||
53974 | 56257 | Noted circa 06/19845 | |||||||
53974 | 54504 | Formed at KD Jun-85 | |||||||
53974 | 54503 | Formation change - NH - circa Oct-85 | |||||||
53974 | 54503 | Noted circa 01/19865 | |||||||
53974 | 54503 | Listed at Newton Heath - Summer 1986 | |||||||
53974 | 54503 | Listed at NH - 10/05/87 | |||||||
N604 | 53974 | 54503 | Listed at NH - May 1988 | ||||||
N604 | 53974 | 54503 | Noted circa May-88 | ||||||
N604 | 53974 | 54503 | Noted circa Jul-88 | ||||||
N604 | 53974 | 54503 | Noted circa 11/19885 | ||||||
T204 | 53974 | 54503 | Listed at TS - 01/09/89 | ||||||
T204 | 53974 | 54503 | Noted 28/12/89 - in Sheffield Midland2 | ||||||
53974 | 54248 | Noted 07/08/90 - at Melton Ross | |||||||
53974 | 54504 | Noted 24/10/90 - on 09:10 Newcastle - Barrow-in-Furness with 53956 + 542386 | |||||||
LO299 | 53974 | 54203 | Listed at LO - Dec-91 | ||||||
LO299 | 53974 | 54203 | Noted circa 02/19925 |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Gerald Brown
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Shayne Lewis
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Graeme Phillips
In refurbished white with blue stripe livery, a Class 108 two-car DMU formed of DMBS M50974 & DTCL M56257 was stood at end of the Coast Line at a sad-looking Blackpool South on a rather dull July 9th 1979. The tail lamp on the platform marked the limit of travel, the unit would form the 19.28 departure back to Kirkham. The former booking hall on Waterloo Road bridge was in use as a model railway shop with a large exhibition layout. The wooden buildings at platform level had survived the massive rationalisation that Blackpool South underwent during the period 1964-1970. Martyn Hilbert.
With the former Jubilee Mill as a backdrop, a two-car Class 108 DMU formed of cars M50974 (closest) + M56227 was getting underway from Croston with an Ormskirk to Preston service on July 5th 1980. Martyn Hilbert.
A well filled two-car Class 108 (Newton Heath Depot set N604), formed of cars M53974 & M54503 was stood on the Up Slow at Leyland station with a tea-time Blackpool North to Manchester Victoria service on August 16th 1988. Martyn Hilbert.
Class 108 53974, set number T204, is seen outside the wheel lathe at Tyseley on 20.05.1989. Andy Cole.
Class 108 DMBS 53974, set number T204, is seen at Tyseley on 20.05.1989. The road it is on leads to the wheel lathe, and its partner, 54503 was on the lathe. The adjacent Class 116 (probably 53825) is missing a drivers door. Andy Cole.
A two-car Class 108 DMU departing from Barnetby on May 18 1990. Closest is DMBS 53974, allocated to Neville Hill but still carrying a Tyseley set number. John Carter.
With the tail lamp on the platform marking the limit of travel on the East side of the remaining island platform, A two-car Class 108 formed of DTCL M56257 & DMBS M50974 had arrived at Blackpool South with the 18.58 from Kirkham, and with the tail lamp in place, was ready for working back along the Coast Line at 19.28 on the evening of July 9th 1979. The land to the left of the DMU was the site of through running lines and the Marton Direct Line from Kirkham, once a busy railway in the days when the terminus at Blackpool Central handled prodigious amounts of excursion traffic, right up until it closed in 1964. Martyn Hilbert.
In amongst the DMU vehicles seen at Derby Litchurch Lane on the 14th November 1980 is a refurbished Class 108 set formed of 56257 and 50974. Chris Lings.
On 10 March 1984, the LCGB "Staffordshire Ranger" rail tour is seen at Cheddleton station with a three-car Swindown Works "cross-country" and a Derby Works class 108 three-car. Six Bells Junction notes the vehicles as 51586 + 59583 + 51577 / 53974 + 59387 + 51934. Jeremy Chapter.
A Class 108 DMU formed of 54248 + 53974 pass at Melton Ross on August 7th, 1990. Rex Holt.