Builder: BR Derby Works
Layout: Low Density
Length: 57ft
Coupling Code: Blue Square
Coupling Type: Screw
Gangway Type: LMS
Lot Number: 30466
Diagram: 640
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 50945 during the unknown period are:
31/01/59 | New to | 6K (Rhyl) | - pending allocation |
Jun-59 | Transferred to | 26A (Newton Heath) | |
8w/e 05/09/59 | On loan to | 27F (Brunswick) | |
Oct-59 | Transferred to | 1E (Bletchley) | |
3w/e 31/01/65 | Transferred to | 6A (Chester) | |
4w/e 07/05/66 | Transferred to | 8J (Allerton) | |
3w/e 02/07/66 | Transferred to | 9D (Newton Heath) | |
4w/e 04/02/67 | Transferred to | 9A (Longsight) |
Then the allocations for 56228 are:
12/05/85 | Transferred to | NH (Newton Heath) | |
2w/e 14/05/86 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
15/06/86 | Transferred to | TS (Tyseley) | |
03/05/87 | Transferred to | ME (Marylebone) | |
Oct-88 | Transferred to | BY (Bletchley) | |
p/e 07/12/91 | Sector Change to | BY (Bletchley) NNDX | |
22/04/93 | Transferred to | HQ (Headquarters) NNDX | |
27/04/93 | Withdrawn from | HQ (Headquarters) NNDX |
56228 - original number
54228 - from Jul-83 (53xxx / 54xxx change)
Scrapped by Gwent Demolition, Margam
50945 | 56228 | As delivered to 6K - 31st January 1959 | |||||||
50945 | 56228 | Noted mid-March 1959 | |||||||
50945 | 56228 | Transfer to 1E - Oct-59 | |||||||
50946 | 56228 | Noted 19/12/67 - at Manchester Exchange1 | |||||||
50956 | 56228 | Noted 01/01/68 - in Manchester Piccadilly1 | |||||||
LT320 | 50945 | 56228 | Listed at Longsight - circa Dec-69 | ||||||
50945 | 56228 | Noted 02/05/70 - at Sheffield with 50946 + 562291 | |||||||
LT303 | 50533 | 56228 | Listed at Longsight - circa Jul-70 | ||||||
50945 | 56228 | Noted 17/08/1974 - at Chester2 | |||||||
50945 | 56228 | Noted 28/08/75 - on Longsight depot3 | |||||||
50945 | 56228 | Noted 09/19754 | |||||||
50945 | 56228 | Noted 16/01/19825 | |||||||
LO302 | 50945 | 56228 | Noted circa 05/19825 | ||||||
LO302 | 50945 | 56228 | Noted 31/05/19825 | ||||||
LO302 | 50645 | 56228 | Noted 19/07/1982 - Manchester Picc5 | ||||||
53945 | 54228 | Noted circa 06/19835 | |||||||
53945 | 54228 | Listed at LO - 01/01/85 | |||||||
53945 | 54228 | Transfer to BY - 2w/e 14/05/86 - from NH | |||||||
53945 | 54228 | Transfer to TS - 15/06/86 - from BY | |||||||
TS209 | 53945 | 54228 | Listed at Tyseley - Summer 1986 | ||||||
51676 | 54228 | Noted 06/10/19875 | |||||||
51652 | 54228 | Noted 13/03/90 - on services from Marylebone with 54381 + 516646 | |||||||
51652 | 54228 | Noted 02/04/90 - on services from Marylebone with 54259 + 516746 | |||||||
L232 | 51914 | 54228 | Listed at BY - 24/02/92 - NSE NNDX pool | ||||||
L232 | 51914 | 54228 | Listed at BY - 12/08/92 | ||||||
L232 | 51914 | 54228 | Listed at BY - November 1992 - Sector NNDX |
Formation Sources
1: Leonard Rogers
2: Jeremy Goodyear
3: Gerald Brown
4: Peter Wallwork
5: Eddie Knorn
6: Aaron Calder
BR (Derby) Class 108 2-car local passenger dmu Nos.E56228 (Class 142) and E50944 (Class 108/2) of the 1958 batch, near Lancaster, on a Lancaster - Morecambe service, 05/75. Hugh Llewelyn.
Freshly painted into Blue / Grey livery, Class 108 DTCL M56228 is seen on Longsight depot on 1 December 1979. Brian Daniels.
Class 108 DTC 54228 is working as part of a Class 115 set when seen at Aylesbury in the early 1990s. Stuart Mackay Collection.
A Class 108 DMU with Longsight-allocated M50945 closest - presumably with long-time partner M56228 - in Plumley station in early summer 1975. Michael Mensing.
Two Class 115/108 hybrids in Aylesbury station, the closest one being 51676 + 54228, on 25 May 1987. Stuart Mackay Collection.