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Vehicle 56030 / 54030


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

24/01/57 New to 40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 04/07/59 Transferred to 41A (Darnall)
Oct-59 On loan to NER (NER)
31/10/59 Ex-loan back to 41A (Darnall)
4w/e 28/04/62 Transferred to 40A (Lincoln)
May 1973Depot code changeLN
05/01/86 Withdrawn from LN (Lincoln)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56030 - original number
54030 - from Jun-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 16/11/1979 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:


50030 56030 As delivered to 40A - 24th January 1957
50030 56030 Transfer to 41A - 4w/e 28/11/59 - ex-loan NER
50030 56030 Transfer to 40A - 4w/e 28/04/62
50030 56030 Noted 03/11/66 - at Doncaster1
50030 56030 Noted May 1968
50030 56030 Noted 28/10/71 - in Sheffield Midland2
50030 56030 Noted 29/08/74 - in Sheffield Midland2
50042 56030 Noted 08/09/75 - at Brough1
50042 56030 Noted 27/10/75 - at Brough1
50042 56030 Noted 29/03/1976 - at Retford3
50012 56030 Noted 08/04/1976 - at Retford3
50013 56030 Noted 04/06/77 - on 0930 Lincoln Central-Sheffield
50047 56030 Noted 02/12/77 - at Bury St Edmunds2
50005 56030 Noted 22/09/79 - R.C.T.S. (West Midlands Branch) The Cottam Railtour 50005 + 56030 / 50011 + 56044 / 51288 + 56446
50009 56030 Noted 30/03/1980 - 8 car 114 noted working Louth-York and return 50009-56030+56014-50019+56007-50043+50012-56021 [car 56021 assumed]
50038 56030 Noted circa 02/19834
53024 54030 Noted 24/04/19844
53046 54030 Noted circa 04/19854
53046 54030 Noted 12/04/85 - at Norwich2

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

Images:

Class 114 DMU at Willoughby

7th March 1970

Derby Heavyweight DMU cars E56030 and E50030 are seen at Willoughby station on 7 March 1970 having arrived on the 15.52 from Mablethorpe. The line would close in October. Tom Burnham.

Class 114 DMU at Cleethorpes

13th March 1978

E56030 is part of this 114 set seen at Cleethorpes on 13/3/78. Ian Francis.

Class 114 DMU at Worksop

Unknown date

A Class 114 DMU with DTCL E56030 closest at Worksop, date unknown. Paul Redmond.


The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

DMU

Date: 7th March 1970

DMU cars E50030 and E56030 have arrived at Mablethorpe with the 13.56 from Willoughby on 7 March 1970. Tom Burnham.

DMU

Date: 2nd August 1978

Nottingham station on a wet and windy 2nd August 1978. This 2-car Class 114 dmu has just arrived with service from Skegness. I had arrived in Nottingham about 40 minutes earlier on the 09.35 Carlisle-Nottingham, hauled by 45 037, and was awaiting the 15.10 Nottingham-St Pancras (45140) to take me to Leicester. The Class 114 was formed 50044/56030. 50044 was new in March 1957, when it was allocated to Lincoln (40A). It stayed at Lincoln until October 1987, when it was transferred to Tyseley (TS). It was withdrawn from service at TS in October 1991 (during the Sprinter Revolution) and was scrapped by Mayer Newman at Snailwell. 56030 was new, also to 40A, in January 1957, and stated at LN until withdrawal in January 1986. 56030 (by then renumbered to 54030) was scrapped at Berry's yard in Leicester. Lewis Bevan.

DMU

Date: 9th March 1985

Set number: 74

Cambridge with 54373/51225 on the left, with 53215/54368 to the right ahead of class 114, 53046/54030. 9 March 1985. Rob Paterson.