Vehicle 56021 / 54021

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Class 114

Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 64ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30210
Diagram: 641

Allocations

01/01/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
2w/e 02/05/59	Transferred to	41A (Darnall)
2w/e 30/04/61	Transferred to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56021 - original number
54021 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

circa Dec-86 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 11/05/1979 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50021	56021							As delivered to 40A - 1st January 1957
	50020	56021	50021						Noted 1st June 1957
	50019	56021							Noted 11/04/67 - at Doncaster1
	50019	56021							Noted 01/06/67 - at Leeds City1
	50021	56021							Noted 25/11/67 - at Leeds City with 50040 + 560361
	50021	56021							Noted 14/04/69 - in Doncaster with 50026 + 560111
	50022	56021							Noted 30/10/1971 - at York2
	50012	56021							Noted 20/04/73 - at Sleaford3
	50012	56021							Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster1
	50001	56021							Noted 29/10/75 - at York with 50045/560431
	50004	56021							Noted 07/04/1976 - at Doncaster4
	50004	56021							Noted 03/06/76 - at Cambridge3
	50035	56021							Noted 04/09/76 - at Doncaster1
	50035	56021							Noted 18/11/76 - at Cambridge3
	50012	56021							Noted 23/11/77 - at Bury St Edmunds3
	50012	56021							Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
	50043	56021							Noted circa 04/19825
	50020	56021							Noted circa 02/19835
	50020	56021							Noted 04/02/83
	53020	54021							Noted 24/04/19845
	53023	54021							Noted circa 09/19865

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn

Images:

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23rd July 1977

A Class 114 DMU with E56021 closest sits in Skegness station on 23 July 1977, waiting to depart with the 15:58 to Grantham. On the right 40 024 can just be seen. Robert Thomas.

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10th June 1978

Derby Class 114 DMU 56021 + 50012 at Sheffield, 10th June 1978. Tiptree Jon.

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4th December 1988

Class 114s E54021, E53013 and E53025 at Snailwell on December 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.