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Vehicle 56086 / 54086

Class 101

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low-Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30272
Diagram: 630

Allocations

05/12/57	New to	51A (Darlington)
May-73	Depot code change	DN
w/e 15/01/78	Transferred to	GF (South Gosforth)
w/e 23/07/78	Transferred to	HT (Heaton)
27/07/86	Withdrawn from	HT (Heaton)

Notes

30/06/86 - collision with HST at Darlington. See https://www.flickr.com/photos/markh737/17149022787/

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56086 - original number
54086 - from Feb-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 13/01/1978 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Vic Berry, Leicester

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50293	56086	As delivered to 51A - 5th December 1957
	50598	56086	Noted 11/09/65 - at Thornaby¹
	51220	56086	Noted 03/04/71¹
	51216	56086	Noted 09/06/73 - at Thornaby²
N163	50220	56086	Noted 07/01/75 - in Newcastle Central, set number only on 56086²
N163	56086		Noted 24/08/75 - on South Gosforth depot, loose vehicle²
	50294	56086	Transfer to GF - Jan-78
	50152	56086	Noted circa 03/1979³
	50251	56086	Noted 04/04/81 - on 11:08 to Newcastle at South Shields
	51429	56086	Noted 15/08/81 - at Newcastle
	51429	56086	Noted circa 12/1981³
	51222	56086	Noted 27/10/82 - on 12:38 Newcastle - Carlisle
	53293	54086	Noted circa 03/1983 - BREL Doncaster³
	53247	54086	Noted 07/05/83 - in Newcastle Central²
	53209	54086	Noted Mar-84 - on Newcastle - Carlisle working⁴
	53164	54086	Noted 08/07/84 - at Darlington
	53156	54086	Noted circa 03/1985³
	53293	54086	Noted circa 01/1986³

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

Images:

4th April 1981

E56086 + E50251 with the 11:08 to Newcastle at South Shields on April 4, 1981. The soon to be withdrawn service to South Shields - the line was converted to light rail Metro trains. However, the Metro line stopped short of here with a featureless 'plastic' station being provided instead. A NER tiled map can be seen on the wall on the right, I wonder what happened to that when the station was demolished. John Carter.

8th July 1984

Class 101 Met Cam DMUs at Darlington, 53140 on left 54086 on right, 8-7-84. On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

15th March 1986

The view from the front of 54086 working a Whitby to Middlesbrough train at Glaisdale as 53262 arrives leading a train to Whitby 15th March 1986. Keith Long.

24th May 1987

Class 101 54086 is seen condemned at Thornaby on 24.05.1987 after an altercation with an HST power car. Note the Tyne and Wear PTE symbol. Andy Cole.

1988

Class 101 DTS(L) 54086 at Thornaby TMD in 1988. The Heaton based vehicle had been in a collision with HST vehicle 43143 at Darlington station on the 30th June 1986, and withdrawn in July 1986. Graeme Phillips Collection.

30th October 1988

E54086 Vic Berrys, Leicester on 30-10-88. Kevin Dowd.

19th November 1988

Met-Camm 54086 is feeling a little crushed at Vic Berry's on November 19, 1988. Nicholas Youngman.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 15th August 1981

1981-08-15 03 059 and E51282 (working with a refurbished Met-Camm vehicle) in Newcastle on 15-8-1981. In the background is E56086 + E51429. John Carter.

Date: 27th October 1982

A Class 101 formed of DMBS E51222 and DTS(L) E56086 at Newcastle, 27/10/1982. They are waiting to depart from what was then platform 13, with 12:38 Newcastle - Carlisle. Note the Tyne & Wear PTE logo carried behind the driver's door. Graeme Phillips Collection.

Date: 8th July 1984

Class 101 DMUs at Darlington, 54086 + 53164 on left, 54084 + 53233 with 18-15 to Saltburn on right, 8-7-84. The set on the left, with 'Special' on the destination blind, has red items hanging from the passenger doors, excursion boards? On Tour With the Class 13 Army.

Date: 15th March 1986

Whitby station with 53162 and 54086 having arrived from Middlesbrough 15th March 1986. Keith Long.

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