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Vehicle 56070 / 54070

Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30262
Diagram: 630

Allocations

23/07/57	New to	54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	South Gosforth
Feb-64	Depot code change	52J
May-73	Depot code change	GF
3w/e 11/09/76	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill)
28/09/86	Transferred to	CA (Cambridge)
18/01/87	Transferred to	RG (Reading)
Jun-87	Transferred to	OO (Old Oak Common)
4w/e 03/12/88	Sector Change to	NWRX
23/11/90	Withdrawn from	OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ
p/e 05/01/91	Reinstated	OO (Old Oak Common) NWRX
p/e 09/11/91	Sector Change to	OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ
05/12/91	Withdrawn from	OO (Old Oak Common) NXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56070 - original number
54070 - from Apr-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Modifications

09/10/76 - AWS fitted

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 06/10/1976 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by MC Metal Processing, Springburn

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50218	56070	As delivered to 54A - 23rd July 1957
	50233	56070	Noted 02/06/1973 - at Newcastle¹
	50259	56070	Noted 26/08/74 - at Newcastle Central²
	50259	56070	Noted 28/08/74 - in Newcastle Central²
	51209	56070	Noted 11/1974 - at Newcastle ³
N116	50259	56070	Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 56070²
	50259	56070	Noted 01/04/1976 - at Newcastle ³
	51437	56070	Transfer to NL - 3w/e 11/09/76
	50227	56070	Noted circa 01/1977⁴
	50227	56070	Noted 12/08/77 - on Morecambe - Leeds service with E56197 + E50619
	50227	56070	Noted 11/08/80 - at Morecambe
	50227	56070	Noted 16/01/1982⁴
	50227	56070	Noted circa 10/1982⁴
	53227	54070	Noted 30/04/1983 - Leeds⁴
	53227	54070	Noted 12/06/83 - at Skipton
	53227	54070	Noted circa 10/1983⁴
	53227	54070	Noted 16/05/1984⁴
	53227	54070	Listed at NL - 01/01/85
03	51212	54070	Formation change - CA - circa Dec-86
03	51212	54070	Noted 15/01/87 - at Norwich, set number only on 51212²
	51212	54070	Noted 31st January 1987
201	51212	54070	Noted 27/06/1987 - at St. Pancras⁵
L201	51212	54070	Listed at OO - Aug-87
L201	51212	54070	Noted 01/08/1987⁴
L201	51212	54070	Listed at OO - Oct-87
201	51212	54070	Noted 28/12/1987⁴
201	51212	54070	Noted 28/05/88 - at Henley on Thames
201	51212	54070	Noted circa 06/1988⁴
L201	51212	54070	Listed at OO - 15/05/89
L201	51212	54070	Noted circa 10/1990⁴

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

Images:

12th June 1983

54070 + 53227 at Skipton on June 12, 1983. Stuart Mackay Collection.

circa 1988

Set number: 201

One of the Class 101 Metro-Cammell sets that usurped the Pressed Steel monopoly on the Paddington local services in the 1980s. The unit (set L201, presumably 54070 + 51212) is seen outside the old carriage sheds at Old Oak Common, alongside one of the local Class 121 Pressed Steel 'Bubble Cars' W55023. Chris McKee.

7th February 1988

Set number: 201

Class 101 54070, set number 201, is seen at Tyseley on 07.02.1988. Andy Cole.

28th May 1988

Set number: 201

Blue and Grey liveried with a small NSE 'flash' on the front, two car Met-Camm 101 Set 201; 54070 and 51212. Arriving in Henley-on-Thames station on 28 May 1988. Alistair Fyffe.

14th June 1988

Set number: 201

The front end of blue and grey two car Met-Camm class 101 set 201 (54070 + 51212) wasn't in the best of condition with several rusty patches showing when it was photographed just after leaving Kings Sutton station on 14 June 1988 while working an afternoon Oxford to Banbury local service. Within a few months it was repainted into full NSE livery and received an "L" prefix to the set number in line with other units operated by NSE. Peter Tandy.

17th September 1988

Set number: L201

Class 101 DMU set L201 (presumably 54070 + 51212) in Sonning Cutting on 17 September 1988. Henley On Thames is on the destination blind. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.

22nd April 1989

Set number: L201

Class 101 dmu set L201 (51212/54070) at Henley-on-Thames on 22 April 1989. These two vehicles (new in 1958 and 1957 respectively) were formed up as a 2-car unit while allocated to Cambridge (CA) in 1987. Unit L201 was withdrawn from service on 5 December 1991 and the unit was scrapped by MC Metals in Glasgow. Lewis Bevan.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: March 1976

NER Haltwhistle Station on the Newcastle - Carlisle line, and junction with the branch to Alston (soon to close), 03/76. Passing through is 2 X 2-car Metro Camm Class 101 dmus and a van on a Carlisle (Citadel) - Newcastle (Central) service. The dmu cars included E50259 and E56070. Hugh Llewelyn.

Date: March 1976

A four-car Class 101 formation (front set E50259 + E56070) with a van on the rear arrives at Haltwhistle with a Carlisle - Newcastle service in March 1976. Hugh Llewelyn.

Date: 10th August 1977

E50227 + E56070 with Class 108 E56197 + E50619 at Morecambe on the 12th August 1977 on a Leeds working. Robert Frise.

Date: 11th August 1980

E50227 + E56070 at Morecambe on a rainy 11th August 1980. Robert Frise.

Date: 29th January 1988

Set number: 122

From left to right - 54070 (L201), 55022 (carrying set number 122), 55027 and 55020 at Reading on the 29th January 1988. The bubbles are each carrying a different livery. Ian McDonald.

Date: 24th May 1990

Set number: L201

NSE liveried Met-Camm set L201 (presumably 51212 + 54070) arrives at Appleford with the 4.42pm Didcot - Oxford service on May 24, 1990. Michael Mensing.

Date: July 1990

Set number: L201

Met-Camm set L201 (51212 closest, presumably with 54070) is seen at Southall in July 1990 with Slough on the destination blind. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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