Vehicle 56038 / 54038

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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

22/02/57	New to	40A (Lincoln)
3w/e 22/02/58	Transferred to	30A (Stratford)
4w/e 28/03/58	Transferred to	40A (Lincoln)
May 1973	Depot code change	LN
10/05/87	Stored U.	LN (Lincoln)
29/06/88	Withdrawn from	LN (Lincoln)

Notes

1957 - Stored near Sleaford South Junction while power car used as extra power in other unit

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56038 - original number
54038 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

Aug-79 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 26/09/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50038	56038							As delivered to 40A - 22nd February 1957
	50032	56038							Noted February 1958
	50038	56038							Noted 01/06/67 - at Leeds City with 50023 + 560401
	50024	56038							Noted May 1968
	50038	56038							Noted 09/11/69 - at Doncaster1
	50016	56038							Noted Jul-70 - in Sheffield Midland2
	50016	56038							Noted 02/01/71
	50038	56038							Noted 24/04/1973 - at York3
	50038	56038							Noted 11/08/73 - at Doncaster with 50019/56019 + 50027/560271
	50038	56038							Noted 17/08/1973 - at Grantham3
	50009	56038							Noted 18/08/76 - on 1808 Grantham-Skegness
	50009	56038							Noted 10/09/76 - at Doncaster1
	50009	56038							Noted 07/10/76 - at Cambridge4
	50009	56038							Noted 20/01/77 - at Cambridge4
	50009	56038							Noted 30/03/77 - at Brough1
	50009	56038							Noted 29/05/77 - on 0800 Crewe-Manchester Piccadilly
	50009	56038							Noted 25/06/77 - on 1248 Sheffield-Leeds
	50038	56038							Noted 20/12/77 - at Nottingham4
	50038	56038							Noted 27/01/78 - at Bury St Edmunds4
	50038	56038							Noted 04/11/78 - in Sheffield Midland2
	50042	56038							Noted 09/06/79 - in Sheffield Midland2
	50038	56038							Noted 14/06/79 - at Norwich4
	50042	56038							Noted 23/03/1981 - Seen at Retford Low Level, both vehicles in white refurbished livery5
	50009	56038							Noted 19/09/1982 - in Doncaster Works2
	50009	56038							Noted circa 10/19825
	53006	54038							Noted 15/09/1984 - at Leeds City 2
	53006	54038							Noted 25/11/1984 - at Sheffield Midland 2
	53006	54038							Noted 02/06/1985 - at Sheffield Midland 2
	53006	54038							Noted circa 02/19865
	53006	54038							Noted 02/12/19865
	53006	54038							Noted 30/03/87 - on 18:05 Wakefield Westgate - Wakefield Kirkgate6
	53006	54038							Noted 30/03/87 - on 18:11 Wakefield Kirkgate - Huddersfield6

Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Martin Lumley
3: Peter Wallwork
4: Gerald Brown
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Martin Baumann

Images:

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Unknown date

No details with this transparency, E56038 stabled at Sheffield, probably early 1970s. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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9th April 1985

A Class 114 DMU formed of 54038 + 53006 approaches Doncaster station on Tuesday 9th April 1985. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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4th December 1988

Class 114 vehicles E54038 and E53022 at Snailwell on December 4, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: 7th July 1984

Class 114 Derby 2-car DMU 53019 + 54038 at Boston with a late afternoon Doncaster service on 7-7-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

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Date: 19th January 1986

An interior view of the maintenance depot at Lincoln, seen on Sunday 19th January 1986. Among the many DMUs on shed is a solitary Class 08, no. 08102. The nearest DMU on the right is no. E53006, which on this occasion was paired with no. E54038. Andrew Walker.