Vehicle 56080 / 54080

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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

16/07/57	New to	54A (Sunderland)
3w/e 30/08/58	Transferred to	South Gosforth
4w/e 04/08/62	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	6A (Chester)	- NER - LMR trade for 111s.
06/05/73	Depot code change	CH
2w/e 12/10/80	Transferred to	PI (Pwllheli)
circa 1984	Transferred to	CH (Chester)
11/05/86	Transferred to	NC (Norwich)
14/05/89	Transferred to	NL (Neville Hill) PNLX
p/e 02/12/89	Sector Change to	NL (Neville Hill) PXXZ
08/12/89	Withdrawn from	NL (Neville Hill) PXXZ

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56080 - original number
54080 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Swindon Works dated 11/01/1980 released in blue/grey livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50228	56080							As delivered to 54A - 16th July 1957
	50228	56080							Noted 27th October 1957
	50228	56080							Transfer to 55H - 4w/e 04/08/62
	50228	56080							Transfer to 6A - w/e 30/04/66
	50228	56080							Noted 11/04/67 - at Crewe1
	50407	56080							Noted 17/09/71 - at Crewe1
	50407	56080							Noted 19/09/71 - on Chester depot1
	50203	56080							Noted 30/03/1977 - CH Depot2
	50203	56080							Noted 06/07/1977 - 2D62, 10.50 Manchester Victoria to Llandudno2
	50203	56080							Noted 04/12/77 - in Cockshute depot.
	50203	56080							Noted 26/12/1980 - Seen stabled at Pwllheli depot2
	50203	56080							Noted circa 06/19812
	50203	56080							Noted 13/10/1982 - Worked 08.40 Manchester Victoria to Chester with 51201-563472
	53203	54080							Noted circa 01/19862
	53203	54080							Transfer to NC - 11/05/86 - from CH
87	53203	54080							Listed at Norwich - Summer 1986
87	53203	54080							Noted 14/06/86 - at Norwich3
87	53203	54080							Noted circa 08/19862
87	53203	54080							Listed at NC - Apr-87
87	53203	54080							Noted 07/04/87 - at Norwich3
87	53203	54080							Noted circa 06/19872
87	53203	54080							Noted 29/08/19872
87	53203	54080							Listed at NC - Dec-87
84	51209	54080							Formation change - NC - 2w/e 13/03/88 - 54080 replaced 54083
87	53203	54080							Formation change - NC - circa May-88 - 54080 added

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

Images:

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Unknown date

56080 is the ex-works 101 seen at Derby. Date unknown. Ian Francis.

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circa 1987

Set number: 87

Norwich unit 87, leading car is presumably 54080, arrives at Thetford heading for Cambridge circa 1987. Tony Walmsley.

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6th December 1987

Set number: 87

The weekend of 5/6 December 1987 saw the last semaphore signals between Leicester and Bedford replaced by colour light signals. I spent part of the Sunday around Wellingborough taking a few photos of the old gantries being removed etc, and got this photo of a 2-car Class 101 unit (Norwich set 87, 54080 visible) on a special working at Wellingborough. I think this unit was being used to transport signalling engineers around the area, and, from memory, I think the 2 chaps walking along the platform had just alighted from this dmu. Lewis Bevan.

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late 1980s

Set number: 87

A two-car Class 101 DMU crosses the River Waveney on the swing bridge at Somerleyton on the Norwich-Lowestoft line. The vehicle numbers appear to be 54080 + 53203 which dates it between May 1986 and May 1989 when they formed Norwich set 87. Stuart Mackay Collection.

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8th August 1988

Set number: 87

Norwich based 2 car Metro-Cammell set 87 (54080, 53203) is seen leaving Brundall, which has staggered platforms, with a Norwich - Great Yarmouth service, 8th August 1988. Andrew J Crowther.

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18th August 1990

Class 101 driver trailer E54080 at Snailwell on 18th August 1990. It had been withdrawn from Neville Hill in December 1989. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

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Date: unknown

A fairly rare photo of a Park Royal formed into a (hybrid) 3-car set. 50406 is with Met Camm Class 101 vehicles 59131 & 50337,at Helsby on the 09:38 Runcorn - Chester service (date unrecorded). Notes on the back of the original photo record that 50406 replaced 50320 in the set, the latter being subsequently paired with 56080. Anthony Griffiths.