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Vehicle 56092 / 54092

Class 111

Builder: Met-Camm
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30337
Diagram: 628

Allocations

The London Midland Region didn't publish trailer car details until late in 1968. Although not 100% reliable, if it is assumed that the trailers remained with the same power cars, the allocations for 50136 during the unknown period are:

w/e 27/04/57	New to	9A (Longsight)
Jun-57	Transferred to	9D (Buxton)
Oct-58	Transferred to	9A (Longsight)
4w/e 01/07/61	Transferred to	9D (Buxton)
4w/e 02/02/63	Transferred to	26A (Newton Heath)
Sep-63	Depot code change	9D

Then the allocations for 56092 are:

w/e 30/04/66	Transferred to	55H (Neville Hill)
May-73	Depot code change	NL
28/09/86	Transferred to	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)
14/06/87	Withdrawn from	BG (Hull Botanic Gardens)

The vehicle carried the following numbers:

56092 - original number
54092 - from May-85 (53xxx / 54xxx change)

Refurbished

At Doncaster Works dated 02/12/1977 released in white/blue stripe livery

Disposal

Scrapped by Mayer Newman, Snailwell

Some sample formations the vehicle has been noted in:

	50136	56092	As delivered to 9A - Apr-57
	50136	56092	Noted 6th May 1957
	50136	56092	Noted 22nd June 1958
	50136	56092	Transfer to 55H - w/e 30/04/66 - ex-LMR
	50135	56092	Noted 06/04/67 - at York¹
	50137	56092	Noted 04/08/68 - in Leeds City¹
	50136	56092	Noted 20/08/69 - at Leeds¹
	50134	56092	Noted 22/12/69 - at Sheffield Midland¹
	50135	56092	Noted 27/05/70 - at Brough¹
L156	50135	56092	Noted circa 1971²
	50135	56092	Noted 19/04/71 - in Leeds City³
	50135	56092	Noted 09/06/73 - at Doncaster³
	50135	56092	Noted 02/01/75 - at York³
	50135	56092	Noted 06/05/77 - at Bury St Edmunds³
	50135	56092	Noted circa 1978²
	50135	56092	Noted circa 10/1981²
	50135	56092	Noted circa 10/1982²
	53135	54092	Noted circa 10/1983²
	53135	54092	Noted 07/01/1984²
	53135	54092	Noted 01/09/1984 - 53026-54013+54092-53135+53045-54004 Special Train from Blackpool to Finningley Airshow and return
	53135	54092	Listed at NL - 01/01/85
	53135	54092	Noted 16/08/85
	53135	54092	Noted 16/08/85 - on Carlisle-York service with 53217 + 54383
	53135	54092	Noted 21/03/86 - at York³
	53135	54092	Noted 25/06/86
	53135	54092	Noted 26/10/1986²
	53253	54092	Noted 10/12/1986²

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

Images:

6th May 1957

56092 (with 50137 on the left, 50136 on the right) heads out of Birmingham New Street at 5.39pm on the 6th May 1957. They were working British Industries Fair shuttles to Castle Bromwich that day. Michael Mensing.

1983

A two-car Met-Camm power-trailer set at Knottingley in 1986, the DTC appears to be E54092. John Law.

25th June 1986

A two-car Met-Cam class 111/101, comprising 54092 + 53135, arrives at Whitley Bridge station with an eastbound passenger service for Goole on 25th June 1986. John Crooks.

The vehicle is mentioned in the following images:

Date: 6th May 1957

Borrowed from the Manchester area, M50136 (and presumably 56092) in platform 9 at Birmingham New Street waiting to leave with a British Industries Fair special to Castle Bromwich on the 6th May 1957. Michael Mensing.

Date: unknown

A Rolls-Royce powered Met-Camm set at Stockport (Edgeley). The power car is M50136, the trailer should be M56092. Date unknown. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 14th June 1980

The Class 111 DMU formed of E50135 + E56092 has reversed prepatory to forming the 16.00 to Bradford (Forster Square) at Keighley on 14 June 1980. The orange cantrail level stripe across the cab front was unusual in this livery. Tom Burnham.

Date: 23rd March 1982

A refurbished Met-Camm Class 111 DMU formed of 50135 + 56092 at Diggle on 23 March 1982. Huddersfield is on the destination blind. Image taken by John Vaughan. Stuart Mackay Collection.

Date: 16th August 1985

A Carlisle-York service in the hands of two Metro-Cammell two car sets made up of cars E54383 + E53217 / E53135 + E54092 stop at Settle, next to the London Midland Rly sign that tells us Carlisle is 71 miles away to the North, and London is 236 miles away to the South. 16th August 1985. Andrew J Crowther.

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